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Wildfires in Catchiungo

Catchiungo, Angola, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 6,465 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 52 % · 47 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 49 % · 39 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 53 % · 35 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 50 % · 34 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 27° · 43 % · 34 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 26° · 51 % · 31 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 27° · 55 % · 43 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 26° · 55 % · 42 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

6,465
hectares burned
2.2 %
of its area
2
fires
2,942
km²

How many times has Catchiungo burned?

Catchiungo has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Catchiungo fire, June 2026, with 1,446 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
6,465
cumulative ha
1 Jun 2026
most recent

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 Catchiungo

  1. 1,446 ha Catchiungo fire, June 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,018 ha in total · 21 days
  2. 5,019 ha Catchiungo fire, May 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 6,081 ha in total · 38 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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