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Wildfires in Epéna

Epéna, Republic of the Congo, has had 50 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 64,323 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 61 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 59 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 62 % · 18 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 29° · 67 % · 26 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 65 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 64 % · 21 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

64,323
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
50
fires
2,948
km²

How many times has Epéna burned?

Epéna has burned 50 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Epéna fire, 22 September 2026, with 1,418 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 7× 25
  11. 18× 26
50
fires
11
years with fire
64,323
cumulative ha
22 Sept 2026
most recent

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 Epéna

  1. 1,418 ha Epéna fire, 22 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,409 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 3,078 ha Epéna fire, 22 September 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,715 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,009 ha Epéna fire, 22 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,210 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 847 ha Epéna fire, 10 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,002 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 1,108 ha Epéna fire, 7 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,199 ha Epéna fire, 1 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,191 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 2,017 ha Epéna fire, 1 September 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,003 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 974 ha Sembé fire, 1 September 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 3,313 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 1,414 ha Epéna fire, 31 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,405 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 2,217 ha Epéna fire, 17 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,202 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 1,430 ha Epéna fire, 3 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,420 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 2,230 ha Epéna fire, 29 July 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,215 ha in total · 10 days
  13. 1,200 ha Epéna fire, 29 July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,193 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 1,367 ha Epéna fire, 26 July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,358 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 14 ha Bambama fire, 19 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,185 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 2,618 ha Epéna fire, 19 July 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,601 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 2,502 ha Epéna fire, 18 July 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,485 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 1,637 ha Epéna fire, 3 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,627 ha in total · 8 days
  19. 1,253 ha Epéna fire, September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,244 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 1,081 ha Epéna fire, 15 August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,073 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 1,077 ha Epéna fire, 14 August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,070 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 1,107 ha Epéna fire, 11 August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 1,671 ha Epéna fire, 8 August 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,661 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 3,287 ha Epéna fire, 7 August 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,266 ha in total · 12 days
  25. 1,188 ha Epéna fire, 7 August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,180 ha in total · 12 days
  26. 1,143 ha Epéna fire, 20 July 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,136 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 1,800 ha Epéna fire, 18 July 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,788 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 1,392 ha Epéna fire, 18 July 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,383 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 1,079 ha Epéna fire, 18 July 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,072 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 1,019 ha Epéna fire, 6 July 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,013 ha in total · 6 days
  31. 1,160 ha Epéna fire, August 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,152 ha in total · 4 days
  32. 1,058 ha Epéna fire, July 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 12 days
  33. 122 ha Impfondo fire, 17 August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,533 ha in total · 8 days
  34. 24 ha Impfondo fire, 30 August 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,765 ha in total · 3 days
  35. 0 ha Impfondo fire, 21 August 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,115 ha in total · 1 day
  36. 1,162 ha Epéna fire, 21 August 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,204 ha in total · 5 days
  37. 1,307 ha Epéna fire, 9 August 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,298 ha in total · 5 days
  38. 1,168 ha Epéna fire, September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,160 ha in total · 1 day
  39. 1,624 ha Epéna fire, August 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,613 ha in total · 7 days
  40. 272 ha Epéna fire, 12 August 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,381 ha in total · 7 days
  41. 1,476 ha Epéna fire, 8 August 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,466 ha in total · 6 days
  42. 1,211 ha Epéna fire, August 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,203 ha in total · 7 days
  43. 1,157 ha Epéna fire, October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,154 ha in total · 2 days
  44. 276 ha Bambama fire, September 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 1,152 ha in total · 2 days
  45. 1,157 ha Epéna fire, July 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,150 ha in total · 8 days
  46. 103 ha Impfondo fire, 29 July 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,033 ha in total · 7 days
  47. 1,118 ha Epéna fire, 24 July 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,111 ha in total · 7 days
  48. 2,332 ha Epéna fire, 20 July 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,316 ha in total · 15 days
  49. 1,036 ha Epéna fire, 20 July 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,030 ha in total · 16 days
  50. 1,184 ha Epéna fire, 20 July 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,176 ha in total · 16 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/New York University Spatial Data Repository, Stanford University, Map Maker Limited (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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