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Wildfires in Quissama

Quissama, Angola, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 2,720 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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 4 Low 35° · 49 % · 34 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 33° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 65 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Low 32° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Low 32° · 55 % · 29 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 32° · 56 % · 36 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 33° · 54 % · 38 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 34° · 45 % · 34 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Quissama: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,720
hectares burned
0.2 %
of its area
2
fires
13,592
km²

How many times has Quissama burned?

Quissama has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Libolo (Calulo) fire, 20 September 2026, with 6 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
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  4. 1× 19
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  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
2,720
cumulative ha
20 Sept 2026
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 Quissama

  1. 6 ha Libolo (Calulo) fire, 20 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 8,561 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 2,715 ha Libolo (Calulo) fire, August 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 5,477 ha in total · 7 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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