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Wildfires in Curoca

Curoca, Angola, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 8,011 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 41).

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. Sat 24 Extreme 40° · 8 % · 38 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 38° · 13 % · 33 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 37° · 18 % · 32 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 35° · 19 % · 44 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 16 % · 53 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very high 36° · 11 % · 33 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very high 39° · 15 % · 46 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

8,011
hectares burned
1.0 %
of its area
2
fires
8,286
km²

How many times has Curoca burned?

Curoca has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2024. The most recent: Curoca fire, August 2024, with 7,991 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
8,011
cumulative ha
15 Aug 2024
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 Curoca

  1. 7,991 ha Curoca fire, August 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 7,947 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 20 ha Ombadja fire, 9 September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 6,322 ha in total · 14 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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