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Wildfires in Quimbele

Quimbele, Angola, has had 21 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 242,128 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 35% 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. Tue 27 Low 32° · 46 % · 19 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 72 % · 24 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 62 % · 19 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 65 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 78 % · 21 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 61 % · 29 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

242,128
hectares burned
35 %
of its area
21
fires
6,888
km²

How many times has Quimbele burned?

Quimbele has burned 21 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Quimbele fire, 17 August 2026, with 6,009 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 242,128 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 115,793 hectares, 17 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 4× 26
21
fires
10
years with fire
242,128
cumulative ha
115,793
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 Quimbele

  1. 6,009 ha Quimbele fire, 17 August 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,965 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 6,505 ha Buengas fire, 15 August 2026 0.9% of the municipality · 69,362 ha in total · 32 days
  3. 5,199 ha Quimbele fire, 11 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,166 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 64,012 ha Quimbele fire, 7 August 2026 where it started 9.3% of the municipality · 75,369 ha in total · 41 days
  5. 4,686 ha Milunga fire, August 2025 0.7% of the municipality · 10,765 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 7,732 ha Buengas fire, 22 August 2025 1.1% of the municipality · 84,117 ha in total · 28 days
  7. 12,179 ha Quimbele fire, 22 August 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 12,096 ha in total · 28 days
  8. 33,546 ha Quimbele fire, 7 August 2025 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 49,780 ha in total · 45 days
  9. 244 ha Buengas fire, 13 August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 6,180 ha in total · 19 days
  10. 5,526 ha Quimbele fire, 11 August 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,486 ha in total · 21 days
  11. 22,882 ha Quimbele fire, 2 August 2024 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 22,724 ha in total · 30 days
  12. 7,418 ha Quimbele fire, 14 August 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 7,368 ha in total · 25 days
  13. 5,369 ha Quimbele fire, 5 August 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,337 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 6,763 ha Quimbele fire, August 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,723 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 6,916 ha Quimbele fire, August 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,868 ha in total · 19 days
  16. 5,968 ha Quimbele fire, 10 August 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,929 ha in total · 17 days
  17. 12,289 ha Quimbele fire, 6 August 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 12,205 ha in total · 25 days
  18. 13,290 ha Quimbele fire, August 2019 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 13,198 ha in total · 24 days
  19. 5,729 ha Quimbele fire, August 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,690 ha in total · 14 days
  20. 5,588 ha Quimbele fire, August 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,550 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 4,276 ha Buengas fire, August 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 20,800 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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