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Wildfires in Cuito

Cuito, Angola, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 17,544 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.7% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 22).

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. Mon 26 Moderate 30° · 34 % · 34 km/h
  2. Tue 27 High 30° · 27 % · 33 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 37 % · 31 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 44 % · 25 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 46 % · 29 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 48 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 66 % · 35 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 27° · 45 % · 33 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

17,544
hectares burned
3.7 %
of its area
3
fires
4,782
km²

How many times has Cuito burned?

Cuito has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Cuito fire, July 2026, with 6,466 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
3
fires
2
years with fire
17,544
cumulative ha
19 Jul 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 Cuito

  1. 6,466 ha Cuito fire, July 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 6,418 ha in total · 23 days
  2. 5,730 ha Cuito fire, June 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 8,548 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 5,348 ha Cuito fire, July 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,314 ha in total · 20 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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