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Wildfires in Luena

Luena, Angola, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 127,990 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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 34° · 27 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 34 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 34° · 26 % · 38 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 33° · 36 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 32° · 32 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 33° · 35 % · 40 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 42 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 84 % · 43 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

127,990
hectares burned
3.2 %
of its area
20
fires
40,246
km²

How many times has Luena burned?

Luena has burned 20 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Luena fire, 8 September 2026, with 12,963 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 4× 26
20
fires
8
years with fire
127,990
cumulative ha
8 Sept 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 Luena

  1. 12,963 ha Luena fire, 8 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 12,894 ha in total · 24 days
  2. 8,789 ha Luena fire, 8 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,734 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 7,154 ha Luena fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,121 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,147 ha Alto Zambeze fire, August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 6,132 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 13,883 ha Luena fire, 14 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 13,812 ha in total · 23 days
  6. 7,137 ha Luena fire, 14 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,098 ha in total · 16 days
  7. 5,363 ha Luena fire, 8 September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,339 ha in total · 18 days
  8. 5,553 ha Luena fire, September 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,523 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 5,827 ha Luena fire, 23 August 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,795 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 107 ha Luchazes fire, 23 August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 5,538 ha in total · 16 days
  11. 14,218 ha Luena fire, 9 August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 14,113 ha in total · 18 days
  12. 10,091 ha Luena fire, August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 10,033 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 1,523 ha Bundas fire, 19 August 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 5,657 ha in total · 17 days
  14. 5,273 ha Luena fire, 6 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,241 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 6,211 ha Luena fire, 6 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,179 ha in total · 14 days
  16. 5,760 ha Luena fire, 29 August 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,707 ha in total · 11 days
  17. 5,867 ha Luena fire, 27 August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,824 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 5,156 ha Luena fire, September 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,119 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 5,134 ha Luena fire, September 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,363 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 833 ha Luchazes fire, 2 September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 6,047 ha in total · 6 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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