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Wildfires in Namacunde

Namacunde, Angola, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 146,815 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 39).

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. Sat 31 High 34° · 29 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very high 36° · 20 % · 30 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Moderate 33° · 29 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 3 High 36° · 22 % · 28 km/h
  5. Wed 4 High 38° · 16 % · 51 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very high 38° · 15 % · 36 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very high 38° · 17 % · 45 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very high 37° · 18 % · 48 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

146,815
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
18
fires
10,923
km²

How many times has Namacunde burned?

Namacunde has burned 18 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Namacunde fire, 18 September 2026, with 5,224 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 146,815 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 123,787 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 10× 25
  11. 2× 26
18
fires
7
years with fire
146,815
cumulative ha
123,787
distinct ha

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 Namacunde

  1. 5,224 ha Namacunde fire, 18 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,599 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 17,322 ha Namacunde fire, 3 September 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 17,250 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 5,549 ha Namacunde fire, 29 September 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,509 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 6,251 ha Namacunde fire, 29 September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,210 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 7,914 ha Namacunde fire, 29 September 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,879 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 905 ha Cuanhama fire, 28 September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 5,189 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 11,507 ha Namacunde fire, 28 September 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 15,221 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 7,364 ha Namacunde fire, 25 September 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,333 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 6,434 ha Namacunde fire, 15 September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,415 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 26,333 ha Namacunde fire, 8 September 2025 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 32,664 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 8,909 ha Namacunde fire, 1 September 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,852 ha in total · 17 days
  12. 6,274 ha Namacunde fire, August 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,246 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 8,307 ha Namacunde fire, September 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,600 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 245 ha Cuanhama fire, 15 August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 5,920 ha in total · 20 days
  15. 7,474 ha Namacunde fire, September 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,446 ha in total · 11 days
  16. 5,102 ha Namacunde fire, October 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,076 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 10,577 ha Namacunde fire, September 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 10,833 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 5,124 ha Namacunde fire, September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,097 ha in total · 4 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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