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Wildfires in Quibala

Quibala, Angola, has had 38 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 289,331 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 52 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 54 % · 23 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 55 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 51 % · 29 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 68 % · 29 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 51 % · 35 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 47 % · 37 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

289,331
hectares burned
28 %
of its area
38
fires
10,415
km²

How many times has Quibala burned?

Quibala has burned 38 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Quibala fire, 19 August 2026, with 6,462 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 289,331 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 243,859 hectares, 23 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 7× 25
  11. 18× 26
38
fires
8
years with fire
289,331
cumulative ha
243,859
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 Quibala

  1. 6,462 ha Quibala fire, 19 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,424 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 14,047 ha Quibala fire, 12 August 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 13,978 ha in total · 38 days
  3. 5,613 ha Quibala fire, 7 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,050 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 2,163 ha Mussende fire, 2 August 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 8,245 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 12,552 ha Quibala fire, 23 July 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 13,840 ha in total · 40 days
  6. 5,587 ha Quibala fire, 23 July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,557 ha in total · 24 days
  7. 2,307 ha Libolo (Calulo) fire, 18 July 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 6,545 ha in total · 22 days
  8. 394 ha Mussende fire, 17 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 29,961 ha in total · 51 days
  9. 12,383 ha Quibala fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 12,317 ha in total · 27 days
  10. 6,030 ha Quibala fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,996 ha in total · 21 days
  11. 3,573 ha Libolo (Calulo) fire, 17 July 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 7,256 ha in total · 17 days
  12. 21,566 ha Quibala fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 21,448 ha in total · 28 days
  13. 12,993 ha Quibala fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 13,144 ha in total · 28 days
  14. 5,364 ha Quibala fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,330 ha in total · 30 days
  15. 55,776 ha Quibala fire, 16 July 2026 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 87,203 ha in total · 65 days
  16. 6,639 ha Quibala fire, 16 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,668 ha in total · 26 days
  17. 299 ha Libolo (Calulo) fire, June 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 14,637 ha in total · 22 days
  18. 3,994 ha Quibala fire, June 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,911 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 2,000 ha Quilenda fire, 12 September 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 8,220 ha in total · 20 days
  20. 115 ha Mussende fire, August 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 6,642 ha in total · 13 days
  21. 10,525 ha Quibala fire, 27 July 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 10,473 ha in total · 18 days
  22. 12,527 ha Quibala fire, 23 July 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 12,443 ha in total · 27 days
  23. 5,742 ha Quibala fire, 20 July 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,705 ha in total · 22 days
  24. 118 ha Cela (Waku Kungo) fire, 18 July 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 7,064 ha in total · 22 days
  25. 20,642 ha Quibala fire, 17 July 2025 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 20,503 ha in total · 25 days
  26. 5,284 ha Quibala fire, September 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,263 ha in total · 12 days
  27. 6,447 ha Quibala fire, 10 August 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,405 ha in total · 14 days
  28. 5,410 ha Quibala fire, 2 August 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,374 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 5,950 ha Quibala fire, 22 July 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,917 ha in total · 10 days
  30. 7,637 ha Quibala fire, 1 July 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,586 ha in total · 11 days
  31. 8,207 ha Quibala fire, June 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,161 ha in total · 17 days
  32. 1,521 ha Libolo (Calulo) fire, June 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 5,321 ha in total · 15 days
  33. 70 ha Libolo (Calulo) fire, August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 5,477 ha in total · 7 days
  34. 4,289 ha Libolo (Calulo) fire, July 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 5,431 ha in total · 19 days
  35. 9,502 ha Quibala fire, July 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 9,450 ha in total · 10 days
  36. 101 ha Libolo (Calulo) fire, July 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 8,507 ha in total · 15 days
  37. 125 ha Libolo (Calulo) fire, June 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 6,378 ha in total · 19 days
  38. 5,375 ha Quibala fire, July 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,345 ha in total · 15 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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