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Wildfires in Sembé

Sembé, Republic of the Congo, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 10,377 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 30% 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 24 Very low 29° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 70 % · 21 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 61 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 69 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 71 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 77 % · 25 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 77 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 71 % · 20 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

10,377
hectares burned
30 %
of its area
12
fires
349
km²

How many times has Sembé burned?

Sembé has burned 12 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kimongo fire, 4 September 2026, with 4 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,377 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,069 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
12
fires
8
years with fire
10,377
cumulative ha
7,069
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 Sembé

  1. 4 ha Kimongo fire, 4 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,620 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,379 ha Sembé fire, 2 September 2026 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 1,370 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 2,361 ha Sembé fire, 1 September 2026 where it started 6.8% of the municipality · 3,313 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 1,831 ha Sembé fire, September 2025 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 1,819 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,141 ha Sembé fire, August 2024 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 1,133 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 155 ha Louvakou (Loubomo) fire, September 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 1,550 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 1,237 ha Sembé fire, August 2021 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 1,229 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 230 ha Louvakou (Loubomo) fire, August 2021 0.7% of the municipality · 1,176 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 380 ha Impfondo fire, 3 August 2018 1.1% of the municipality · 1,251 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 1,223 ha Sembé fire, August 2017 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 1,215 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 32 ha Louvakou (Loubomo) fire, 14 September 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 1,438 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 404 ha Impfondo fire, 27 July 2016 1.2% of the municipality · 1,649 ha in total · 4 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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