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Wildfires in Cangola

Cangola, Angola, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 51,058 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

Only fires of 5,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 51 % · 30 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 63 % · 28 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 28° · 65 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 26° · 68 % · 20 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 28° · 62 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 26° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 28° · 67 % · 30 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

51,058
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
5
fires
3,180
km²

How many times has Cangola burned?

Cangola has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Cangola fire, August 2026, with 6,149 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 51,058 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 39,024 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 2× 26
5
fires
3
years with fire
51,058
cumulative ha
39,024
distinct ha

Fires larger than 5,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Angola →

Fires that entered Cangola

  1. 6,149 ha Cangola fire, August 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 6,107 ha in total · 24 days
  2. 8,536 ha Cangola fire, August 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 8,496 ha in total · 28 days
  3. 35,236 ha Cangola fire, August 2025 where it started 11% of the municipality · 35,990 ha in total · 38 days
  4. 279 ha Calandula fire, August 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 5,742 ha in total · 35 days
  5. 858 ha Massango fire, 18 August 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 5,800 ha in total · 16 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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