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Wildfires in Mussende

Mussende, Angola, has had 28 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 367,282 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 32% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 64 % · 31 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 62 % · 35 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 48 % · 32 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 27° · 58 % · 34 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 59 % · 34 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 56 % · 35 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 28° · 48 % · 35 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

367,282
hectares burned
32 %
of its area
28
fires
11,405
km²

How many times has Mussende burned?

Mussende has burned 28 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mussende fire, 12 August 2026, with 5,772 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 15× 26
28
fires
7
years with fire
367,282
cumulative ha
12 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 Mussende

  1. 5,772 ha Mussende fire, 12 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,743 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 6,996 ha Mussende fire, 7 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,958 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 7,214 ha Mussende fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,175 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 6,136 ha Mussende fire, 2 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,245 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 11,349 ha Mussende fire, 24 July 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 11,383 ha in total · 33 days
  6. 1,373 ha Quibala fire, 23 July 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 13,840 ha in total · 40 days
  7. 55,786 ha Mussende fire, 23 July 2026 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 55,448 ha in total · 43 days
  8. 190 ha Andulo fire, 18 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 31,886 ha in total · 57 days
  9. 6,792 ha Mussende fire, 18 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,753 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 139,755 ha Mussende fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 12% of the municipality · 174,678 ha in total · 47 days
  11. 29,748 ha Mussende fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 29,961 ha in total · 51 days
  12. 133 ha Cangandala fire, 17 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 26,486 ha in total · 27 days
  13. 78 ha Luquembo fire, 16 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 12,928 ha in total · 21 days
  14. 63 ha Quibala fire, 16 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 6,668 ha in total · 26 days
  15. 22,403 ha Quibala fire, 16 July 2026 2.0% of the municipality · 87,203 ha in total · 65 days
  16. 61 ha Andulo fire, August 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 7,677 ha in total · 28 days
  17. 3,958 ha Mussende fire, August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,642 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 8,234 ha Mussende fire, 24 July 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,194 ha in total · 10 days
  19. 6,106 ha Mussende fire, 23 July 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,070 ha in total · 20 days
  20. 8,404 ha Mussende fire, 23 July 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,347 ha in total · 22 days
  21. 5,157 ha Mussende fire, 20 July 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,132 ha in total · 15 days
  22. 7,906 ha Mussende fire, August 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,856 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 5,494 ha Mussende fire, August 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,456 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 6,430 ha Mussende fire, 6 August 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,389 ha in total · 14 days
  25. 5,117 ha Mussende fire, 6 August 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,558 ha in total · 13 days
  26. 5,177 ha Mussende fire, 11 June 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,149 ha in total · 12 days
  27. 6,028 ha Mussende fire, 8 June 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,995 ha in total · 23 days
  28. 5,421 ha Mussende fire, July 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,395 ha in total · 13 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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