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Wildfires in Quela

Quela, Angola, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 75,220 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% 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. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 60 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 67 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 65 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 64 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 29° · 65 % · 23 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 28° · 70 % · 26 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

75,220
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
15
fires
4,915
km²

How many times has Quela burned?

Quela has burned 15 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Cahombo fire, 3 August 2026, with 343 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 75,220 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 62,096 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 9× 26
15
fires
5
years with fire
75,220
cumulative ha
62,096
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 Quela

  1. 343 ha Cahombo fire, 3 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 5,344 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 7,015 ha Quela fire, 25 July 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 6,978 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 6,223 ha Quela fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 6,189 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 6,331 ha Quela fire, 4 July 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 6,297 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 5,735 ha Quela fire, 1 July 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,702 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 1,107 ha Xá-Muteba fire, 5 June 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 6,167 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 2,570 ha Xá-Muteba fire, 4 June 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 10,464 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 19,591 ha Quela fire, June 2026 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 19,485 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 321 ha Xá-Muteba fire, 14 May 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 75,654 ha in total · 56 days
  10. 5,797 ha Quela fire, June 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,766 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 5,279 ha Quela fire, July 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,250 ha in total · 15 days
  12. 7,207 ha Quela fire, June 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 7,167 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 896 ha Xá-Muteba fire, 31 May 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 5,134 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 6,740 ha Quela fire, June 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 6,703 ha in total · 15 days
  15. 65 ha Xá-Muteba fire, June 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 5,077 ha in total · 8 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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