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Wildfires in Cuvelai

Cuvelai, Angola, has had 53 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 308,811 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 50).

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 High 36° · 18 % · 41 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 37° · 11 % · 42 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 36° · 20 % · 46 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 32° · 32 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 33° · 32 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 32° · 30 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 40 % · 44 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 52 % · 36 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

308,811
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
53
fires
15,545
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Cuvelai

  1. 2,585 ha Cuanhama fire, October 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 5,485 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 6,627 ha Cuvelai fire, August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,648 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 5,133 ha Cuvelai fire, October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,108 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 5,974 ha Cuvelai fire, September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,931 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 4,095 ha Cuanhama fire, 1 September 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 12,229 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 6,057 ha Cuvelai fire, 5 September 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,028 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 5,240 ha Cuvelai fire, 4 September 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,219 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 6,470 ha Cuvelai fire, 25 August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,434 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 5,230 ha Cuvelai fire, 20 August 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,204 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 5,941 ha Cuvelai fire, 17 August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,043 ha in total · 14 days
  11. 82 ha Cuanhama fire, 16 August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 11,281 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 11,599 ha Cuvelai fire, 15 August 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 11,544 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 5,555 ha Cuvelai fire, 15 August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,532 ha in total · 12 days
  14. 4,045 ha Cuvelai fire, 10 August 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,988 ha in total · 15 days
  15. 6,305 ha Cuvelai fire, 30 August 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,269 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 7,665 ha Cuvelai fire, 18 August 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,640 ha in total · 11 days
  17. 1,321 ha Menongue fire, 27 September 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 11,500 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 5,266 ha Cuvelai fire, September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,238 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 2,824 ha Cuanhama fire, August 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 6,315 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 5,730 ha Cuvelai fire, August 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,698 ha in total · 9 days
  21. 8,164 ha Cuvelai fire, October 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,119 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 8,506 ha Cuvelai fire, 24 September 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,461 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 10,059 ha Cuvelai fire, 14 September 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 10,010 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 5,512 ha Cuvelai fire, 13 September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,487 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 5,425 ha Cuvelai fire, 31 August 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,406 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 332 ha Cuvango fire, August 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 8,381 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 12,821 ha Cuvelai fire, 13 August 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 14,326 ha in total · 14 days
  28. 5,122 ha Cuvelai fire, October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,094 ha in total · 10 days
  29. 22 ha Menongue fire, September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 8,099 ha in total · 9 days
  30. 5,050 ha Cuvelai fire, 25 September 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 9,860 ha in total · 13 days
  31. 6,056 ha Cuvelai fire, 13 September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,018 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 29 ha Cuanhama fire, 9 September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 17,500 ha in total · 11 days
  33. 4,252 ha Cuvango fire, September 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 6,206 ha in total · 4 days
  34. 8,649 ha Cuvelai fire, 16 September 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,605 ha in total · 10 days
  35. 8,060 ha Cuvelai fire, 1 September 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 13,593 ha in total · 24 days
  36. 5,218 ha Cuvelai fire, 29 August 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,188 ha in total · 6 days
  37. 7,977 ha Cuvelai fire, 29 August 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,940 ha in total · 11 days
  38. 5,043 ha Cuvelai fire, 27 August 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,022 ha in total · 6 days
  39. 8,922 ha Cuvelai fire, 25 August 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,857 ha in total · 21 days
  40. 9,384 ha Cuvelai fire, 25 August 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 9,340 ha in total · 16 days
  41. 6,728 ha Cuvelai fire, 24 August 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,699 ha in total · 16 days
  42. 7,639 ha Cuvelai fire, 8 August 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,607 ha in total · 8 days
  43. 1,881 ha Cuanhama fire, July 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 6,860 ha in total · 8 days
  44. 5,576 ha Cuvelai fire, 20 July 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,544 ha in total · 4 days
  45. 6,377 ha Cuvelai fire, 3 July 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 23,010 ha in total · 43 days
  46. 17,252 ha Cuvelai fire, 1 July 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 17,158 ha in total · 23 days
  47. 5,862 ha Cuvelai fire, 3 June 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,835 ha in total · 7 days
  48. 2,178 ha Cuvelai fire, 1 June 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,723 ha in total · 20 days
  49. 5,208 ha Cuvelai fire, May 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,188 ha in total · 7 days
  50. 5,839 ha Cuvelai fire, September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,806 ha in total · 7 days
  51. 5,184 ha Cuvelai fire, 9 September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,160 ha in total · 5 days
  52. 5,680 ha Cuvelai fire, 9 September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,645 ha in total · 5 days
  53. 5,058 ha Cuvelai fire, August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,037 ha in total · 10 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).