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Wildfires in Ombadja

Ombadja, Angola, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 15,434 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.3% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 67).

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. Tue 27 High 34° · 21 % · 24 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Extreme 37° · 13 % · 44 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Extreme 35° · 21 % · 68 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Moderate 35° · 24 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Low 32° · 35 % · 41 km/h
  6. Sun 1 High 32° · 36 % · 32 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Moderate 32° · 34 % · 32 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Moderate 32° · 38 % · 44 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

15,434
hectares burned
1.3 %
of its area
3
fires
12,283
km²

How many times has Ombadja burned?

Ombadja has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2024. The most recent: Cuvelai fire, 5 August 2024, with 3,981 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
15,434
cumulative ha
5 Aug 2024
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 Ombadja

  1. 3,981 ha Cuvelai fire, 5 August 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 7,988 ha in total · 25 days
  2. 6,345 ha Ombadja fire, 9 September 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,322 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 5,108 ha Ombadja fire, 5 September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,088 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).

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