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Wildfires in Dongou

Dongou, Republic of the Congo, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 4,731 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.2% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

Only fires of 1,000 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 34° · 45 % · 22 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Low 35° · 49 % · 19 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 59 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 29° · 71 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 63 % · 19 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 30° · 66 % · 26 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 28° · 72 % · 30 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 31° · 61 % · 28 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 Dongou: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

4,731
hectares burned
0.2 %
of its area
4
fires
31,038
km²

How many times has Dongou burned?

Dongou has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Dongou fire, February 2026, with 1,276 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,731 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,049 hectares, 0.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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4
fires
4
years with fire
4,731
cumulative ha
4,049
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,000 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 Republic of the Congo

Fires that entered Dongou

  1. 1,276 ha Dongou fire, February 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,267 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 1,019 ha Dongou fire, March 2024 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,012 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,202 ha Dongou fire, March 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,194 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 1,233 ha Dongou fire, February 2016 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,225 ha in total · 18 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Map Library 2007, nombres de Wikidata) (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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