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Wildfires in Caungula

Caungula, Angola, has had 58 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 428,394 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 37% 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. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 58 % · 34 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 67 % · 24 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 68 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 55 % · 35 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 63 % · 24 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 57 % · 29 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 55 % · 24 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 47 % · 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

428,394
hectares burned
37 %
of its area
58
fires
11,429
km²

How many times has Caungula burned?

Caungula has burned 58 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Caungula fire, 17 August 2026, with 5,766 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 10× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 6× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9.   24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 23× 26
58
fires
8
years with fire
428,394
cumulative ha
17 Aug 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 Caungula

  1. 5,766 ha Caungula fire, 17 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,727 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 5,452 ha Caungula fire, 11 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,496 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 5,922 ha Caungula fire, 10 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,886 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 5,509 ha Caungula fire, 7 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,477 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 6,432 ha Caungula fire, 7 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,393 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 5,599 ha Caungula fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,567 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 23,051 ha Caungula fire, 4 August 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 22,898 ha in total · 25 days
  8. 4,442 ha Cuilo fire, 3 August 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 6,277 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 5,005 ha Caungula fire, 3 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,170 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 5,073 ha Caungula fire, 28 July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,037 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 15,420 ha Caungula fire, 24 July 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 15,324 ha in total · 29 days
  12. 7,396 ha Caungula fire, 23 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,344 ha in total · 29 days
  13. 16,680 ha Caungula fire, 22 July 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 16,569 ha in total · 30 days
  14. 8,936 ha Caungula fire, 22 July 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,878 ha in total · 18 days
  15. 12,234 ha Caungula fire, 22 July 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 12,161 ha in total · 22 days
  16. 5,376 ha Caungula fire, 21 July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,345 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 7,212 ha Caungula fire, 20 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,168 ha in total · 12 days
  18. 21,206 ha Caungula fire, 18 July 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 34,398 ha in total · 47 days
  19. 6,315 ha Caungula fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 9,499 ha in total · 20 days
  20. 5,729 ha Caungula fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,696 ha in total · 16 days
  21. 2,977 ha Caungula fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,775 ha in total · 16 days
  22. 35,576 ha Lubalo fire, 16 July 2026 3.1% of the municipality · 143,587 ha in total · 52 days
  23. 6,462 ha Caungula fire, 8 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,419 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 5,186 ha Caungula fire, 9 August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,149 ha in total · 15 days
  25. 6,928 ha Caungula fire, 4 August 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,883 ha in total · 8 days
  26. 5,094 ha Caungula fire, 1 August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,061 ha in total · 7 days
  27. 5,915 ha Caungula fire, July 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,881 ha in total · 12 days
  28. 7,019 ha Caungula fire, 5 August 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,977 ha in total · 12 days
  29. 5,176 ha Caungula fire, 1 August 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,145 ha in total · 12 days
  30. 5,417 ha Caungula fire, 1 August 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,383 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 6,248 ha Caungula fire, 29 July 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,206 ha in total · 15 days
  32. 6,607 ha Caungula fire, 24 July 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,562 ha in total · 18 days
  33. 6,021 ha Caungula fire, 14 July 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,978 ha in total · 9 days
  34. 5,794 ha Caungula fire, 3 July 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,753 ha in total · 14 days
  35. 504 ha Lubalo fire, 3 August 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 5,986 ha in total · 9 days
  36. 6,820 ha Caungula fire, 31 July 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,773 ha in total · 19 days
  37. 6,237 ha Caungula fire, 28 July 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,193 ha in total · 17 days
  38. 11,469 ha Caungula fire, 14 July 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 11,399 ha in total · 28 days
  39. 8,239 ha Caungula fire, 11 July 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,186 ha in total · 16 days
  40. 1,851 ha Lubalo fire, 17 July 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 12,907 ha in total · 17 days
  41. 16,243 ha Caungula fire, 12 July 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 16,128 ha in total · 23 days
  42. 366 ha Lubalo fire, 12 July 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 11,107 ha in total · 23 days
  43. 5,607 ha Caungula fire, 9 July 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,571 ha in total · 17 days
  44. 6,551 ha Caungula fire, 9 July 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,504 ha in total · 17 days
  45. 5,472 ha Caungula fire, 9 July 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,436 ha in total · 3 days
  46. 5,119 ha Caungula fire, 9 August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,087 ha in total · 9 days
  47. 6,900 ha Caungula fire, 9 August 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,860 ha in total · 9 days
  48. 7,169 ha Caungula fire, 4 August 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,120 ha in total · 13 days
  49. 5,896 ha Caungula fire, 6 August 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,858 ha in total · 8 days
  50. 5,108 ha Caungula fire, 5 August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,072 ha in total · 7 days
  51. 2,537 ha Caungula fire, 2 August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,114 ha in total · 12 days
  52. 6,881 ha Caungula fire, 2 August 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,834 ha in total · 10 days
  53. 7,436 ha Caungula fire, 1 August 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,689 ha in total · 13 days
  54. 5,832 ha Caungula fire, 1 August 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,795 ha in total · 19 days
  55. 5,302 ha Caungula fire, 20 July 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,268 ha in total · 14 days
  56. 6,918 ha Caungula fire, 19 July 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,877 ha in total · 14 days
  57. 3 ha Cuango fire, July 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 5,802 ha in total · 10 days
  58. 4,760 ha Caungula fire, 15 July 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,544 ha in total · 18 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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