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Wildfires in Chitembo

Chitembo, Angola, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 190,686 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10.0% 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. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 25 % · 45 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 39 % · 26 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 48 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 46 % · 36 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 36 % · 31 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 39 % · 27 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Low 30° · 41 % · 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

190,686
hectares burned
10.0 %
of its area
20
fires
19,098
km²

How many times has Chitembo burned?

Chitembo has burned 20 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2019, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Chitembo fire, 9 September 2026, with 5,050 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 190,686 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 146,287 hectares, 7.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 10× 26
20
fires
6
years with fire
190,686
cumulative ha
146,287
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 Chitembo

  1. 5,050 ha Chitembo fire, 9 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,014 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 4,327 ha Chitembo fire, 6 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,073 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 7,779 ha Chitembo fire, 2 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,730 ha in total · 26 days
  4. 6,571 ha Chitembo fire, 2 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,527 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 17,470 ha Chitembo fire, 31 August 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 17,346 ha in total · 29 days
  6. 15,083 ha Chitembo fire, 31 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 14,998 ha in total · 20 days
  7. 5,839 ha Chitembo fire, 31 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,808 ha in total · 19 days
  8. 18,144 ha Chitembo fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 18,037 ha in total · 27 days
  9. 10,240 ha Chitembo fire, 22 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 10,177 ha in total · 30 days
  10. 5,117 ha Chitembo fire, 14 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,098 ha in total · 28 days
  11. 5,223 ha Chitembo fire, 12 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,191 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 5,555 ha Chitembo fire, 9 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,515 ha in total · 12 days
  13. 7,487 ha Chitembo fire, 3 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,460 ha in total · 16 days
  14. 7,158 ha Chitembo fire, 1 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,170 ha in total · 15 days
  15. 26,012 ha Chitembo fire, 23 August 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 25,867 ha in total · 29 days
  16. 17,180 ha Chitembo fire, 21 August 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 17,152 ha in total · 31 days
  17. 9,521 ha Chitembo fire, August 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 9,487 ha in total · 19 days
  18. 8,128 ha Chitembo fire, September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,084 ha in total · 24 days
  19. 2,990 ha Cuito Cuanavale fire, 31 August 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 5,385 ha in total · 11 days
  20. 5,813 ha Chitembo fire, September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,778 ha in total · 7 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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