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Wildfires in Matala

Matala, Angola, has had 29 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 192,650 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% 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° · 17 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 38° · 11 % · 39 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 36° · 23 % · 55 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 45 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 32 % · 38 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 35 % · 41 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 44 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 45 % · 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

192,650
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
29
fires
9,106
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Matala

  1. 5,267 ha Matala fire, October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,223 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 103 ha Gambos(Chiange) fire, 26 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,394 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 23,238 ha Matala fire, 26 September 2026 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 23,106 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,892 ha Matala fire, 12 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 8,273 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 6,921 ha Matala fire, 7 September 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 7,279 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 5,585 ha Matala fire, 28 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,559 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 949 ha Jamba fire, 10 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 15,174 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 5,365 ha Matala fire, 7 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,340 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 90 ha Quipungo fire, 20 August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 14,043 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 5,519 ha Matala fire, 16 August 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 13,710 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 22,680 ha Matala fire, 13 August 2024 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 32,963 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 1,873 ha Jamba fire, 7 August 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 5,504 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 2,160 ha Matala fire, 4 August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,119 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 9,601 ha Quipungo fire, 6 August 2023 1.0% of the municipality · 9,954 ha in total · 19 days
  15. 5,081 ha Matala fire, September 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,053 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 6,590 ha Matala fire, August 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 10,088 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 6,742 ha Matala fire, November 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,703 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 6,390 ha Quipungo fire, 17 September 2019 0.7% of the municipality · 7,869 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 11,326 ha Quipungo fire, 9 August 2019 1.2% of the municipality · 21,094 ha in total · 21 days
  20. 6,394 ha Matala fire, September 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,317 ha in total · 7 days
  21. 1,126 ha Quipungo fire, August 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 6,432 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 5,875 ha Matala fire, 7 August 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,836 ha in total · 13 days
  23. 9,080 ha Matala fire, 5 August 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 9,025 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 5,659 ha Matala fire, September 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,816 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 3,397 ha Quipungo fire, 31 August 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 7,457 ha in total · 10 days
  26. 5,238 ha Quipungo fire, 23 August 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 18,311 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 13,007 ha Matala fire, August 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 12,933 ha in total · 4 days
  28. 6,045 ha Matala fire, 22 August 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,008 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 8,461 ha Matala fire, 5 August 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 12,297 ha in total · 11 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).