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Wildfires in Luquembo

Luquembo, Angola, has had 37 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 265,472 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 38 % · 30 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Low 32° · 39 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Moderate 32° · 39 % · 32 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 40 % · 33 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 42 % · 40 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 48 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 29° · 54 % · 41 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 29° · 56 % · 27 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

265,472
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
37
fires
10,042
km²

How many times has Luquembo burned?

Luquembo has burned 37 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Luquembo fire, 6 August 2026, with 11,457 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 21× 26
37
fires
11
years with fire
265,472
cumulative ha
6 Aug 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 Luquembo

  1. 11,457 ha Luquembo fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 11,403 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 5,584 ha Luquembo fire, 2 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,574 ha in total · 24 days
  3. 1,107 ha Quirima fire, 17 July 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 7,824 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 3,117 ha Luquembo fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,046 ha in total · 28 days
  5. 1,250 ha N'harea fire, 17 July 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 13,391 ha in total · 35 days
  6. 5,704 ha Luquembo fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,678 ha in total · 23 days
  7. 2,059 ha Mussende fire, 17 July 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 174,678 ha in total · 47 days
  8. 54,793 ha Luquembo fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 59,432 ha in total · 39 days
  9. 5,852 ha Luquembo fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,452 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 5,940 ha Luquembo fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,253 ha in total · 17 days
  11. 6,153 ha Luquembo fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 11,016 ha in total · 27 days
  12. 13,432 ha Luquembo fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 13,361 ha in total · 22 days
  13. 12,311 ha Luquembo fire, 16 July 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 12,928 ha in total · 21 days
  14. 5,038 ha Luquembo fire, 16 July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,007 ha in total · 17 days
  15. 6,266 ha Luquembo fire, 6 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,245 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 5,569 ha Luquembo fire, 6 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,540 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 54 ha N'harea fire, 4 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,856 ha in total · 17 days
  18. 16 ha Andulo fire, 3 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,828 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 9,988 ha Luquembo fire, 1 July 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 9,910 ha in total · 13 days
  20. 8,224 ha Luquembo fire, 22 June 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,324 ha in total · 29 days
  21. 6,564 ha Luquembo fire, 22 June 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 9,424 ha in total · 22 days
  22. 4,183 ha Luquembo fire, July 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,135 ha in total · 18 days
  23. 5,487 ha Luquembo fire, August 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,461 ha in total · 12 days
  24. 4,683 ha Quirima fire, July 2024 0.5% of the municipality · 5,187 ha in total · 10 days
  25. 6,501 ha Luquembo fire, August 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 10,020 ha in total · 10 days
  26. 5,677 ha Luquembo fire, August 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,637 ha in total · 15 days
  27. 6,665 ha Luquembo fire, June 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,635 ha in total · 12 days
  28. 5,411 ha Luquembo fire, July 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,385 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 7,056 ha Luquembo fire, June 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,055 ha in total · 13 days
  30. 9,374 ha Luquembo fire, 22 July 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 9,330 ha in total · 12 days
  31. 6,115 ha Luquembo fire, 11 July 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,088 ha in total · 16 days
  32. 7,175 ha Luquembo fire, 8 July 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,141 ha in total · 19 days
  33. 5,312 ha Luquembo fire, 3 July 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,025 ha in total · 10 days
  34. 3,878 ha Luquembo fire, July 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,070 ha in total · 17 days
  35. 5,564 ha Luquembo fire, July 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,533 ha in total · 9 days
  36. 5,906 ha Luquembo fire, June 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,877 ha in total · 7 days
  37. 6,005 ha Luquembo fire, August 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,978 ha in total · 7 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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