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Wildfires in Cuangar

Cuangar, Angola, has had 59 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 394,240 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 68).

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. Fri 23 Very extreme 38° · 10 % · 49 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 38° · 13 % · 45 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 37° · 19 % · 35 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 35° · 21 % · 54 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 22 % · 38 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 36° · 22 % · 63 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 34° · 27 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 23 % · 48 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

394,240
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
59
fires
19,097
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Cuangar

  1. 5,717 ha Cuangar fire, October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,702 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 5,215 ha Cuangar fire, 25 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,188 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 6,847 ha Cuangar fire, 24 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,827 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 8,022 ha Cuangar fire, 22 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,001 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 397 ha Namacunde fire, 18 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,599 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 8,804 ha Cuangar fire, 3 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,750 ha in total · 16 days
  7. 5,988 ha Cuangar fire, 3 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,938 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 10,199 ha Cuangar fire, 2 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 10,164 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 18,243 ha Cuangar fire, 1 September 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 18,174 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 818 ha Calai fire, 31 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 9,539 ha in total · 18 days
  11. 16,990 ha Cuangar fire, 31 August 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 16,887 ha in total · 16 days
  12. 5,977 ha Cuangar fire, 27 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,947 ha in total · 15 days
  13. 7,228 ha Cuangar fire, 27 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,182 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 15,753 ha Cuangar fire, 16 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 15,653 ha in total · 25 days
  15. 3,561 ha Nancova fire, 3 August 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 7,749 ha in total · 11 days
  16. 3,785 ha Namacunde fire, 29 September 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 15,221 ha in total · 12 days
  17. 7,991 ha Cuangar fire, 27 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,949 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 10,265 ha Cuangar fire, 25 September 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 10,294 ha in total · 12 days
  19. 6,773 ha Cuangar fire, 25 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,733 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 5,366 ha Cuangar fire, 12 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,337 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 8,061 ha Cuangar fire, 9 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,022 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 138 ha Calai fire, 9 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 8,878 ha in total · 9 days
  23. 1,506 ha Namacunde fire, 8 September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 32,664 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 13,976 ha Cuangar fire, 8 September 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 13,888 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 5,341 ha Cuangar fire, 2 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,306 ha in total · 11 days
  26. 7,881 ha Cuangar fire, August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,834 ha in total · 17 days
  27. 5,758 ha Cuangar fire, August 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,728 ha in total · 8 days
  28. 2 ha Nancova fire, August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 5,747 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 6,775 ha Cuangar fire, 7 September 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,735 ha in total · 13 days
  30. 5,391 ha Cuangar fire, 2 September 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,377 ha in total · 9 days
  31. 5,204 ha Cuangar fire, August 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,610 ha in total · 14 days
  32. 6,814 ha Cuangar fire, 19 June 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,792 ha in total · 16 days
  33. 10,177 ha Cuangar fire, 3 June 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 10,135 ha in total · 11 days
  34. 5,086 ha Cuangar fire, 17 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,070 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 7,014 ha Cuangar fire, 16 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,971 ha in total · 8 days
  36. 1,670 ha Nancova fire, 11 September 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 12,012 ha in total · 14 days
  37. 5,584 ha Cuangar fire, 10 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,568 ha in total · 10 days
  38. 5,099 ha Cuangar fire, 6 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,070 ha in total · 8 days
  39. 8,047 ha Cuangar fire, 1 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,995 ha in total · 20 days
  40. 1,288 ha Menongue fire, October 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 5,628 ha in total · 5 days
  41. 17,049 ha Nancova fire, 30 August 2021 0.9% of the municipality · 33,936 ha in total · 20 days
  42. 6,925 ha Cuangar fire, August 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,898 ha in total · 13 days
  43. 768 ha Nancova fire, October 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 5,191 ha in total · 5 days
  44. 1,405 ha Cuanhama fire, 30 September 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 5,016 ha in total · 4 days
  45. 6,565 ha Cuangar fire, September 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,536 ha in total · 8 days
  46. 8,023 ha Cuangar fire, September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,979 ha in total · 5 days
  47. 145 ha Nancova fire, 13 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 10,518 ha in total · 13 days
  48. 7,353 ha Cuangar fire, 7 October 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,335 ha in total · 9 days
  49. 5,191 ha Cuangar fire, 2 October 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,179 ha in total · 9 days
  50. 5,433 ha Cuangar fire, September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,409 ha in total · 11 days
  51. 12,552 ha Cuangar fire, 12 September 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 18,619 ha in total · 11 days
  52. 292 ha Namacunde fire, September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 10,833 ha in total · 3 days
  53. 7,583 ha Cuangar fire, 1 September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,533 ha in total · 7 days
  54. 7,297 ha Cuangar fire, August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,270 ha in total · 10 days
  55. 14,614 ha Cuangar fire, 14 September 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 14,569 ha in total · 11 days
  56. 8,253 ha Cuangar fire, 6 September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,219 ha in total · 6 days
  57. 5,424 ha Cuangar fire, 22 August 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,395 ha in total · 4 days
  58. 8,039 ha Cuangar fire, 19 August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,000 ha in total · 8 days
  59. 6,575 ha Cuangar fire, June 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,546 ha in total · 3 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).