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Wildfires in Souanké

Souanké, Republic of the Congo, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 22,616 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 32° · 56 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 33° · 50 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 34° · 49 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 59 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 68 % · 40 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 63 % · 19 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 71 % · 39 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 60 % · 24 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

22,616
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
18
fires
1,190
km²

How many times has Souanké burned?

Souanké has burned 18 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Louvakou (Loubomo) fire, 23 September 2026, with 1,180 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 22,616 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 21,050 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 9× 26
18
fires
6
years with fire
22,616
cumulative ha
21,050
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 Souanké

  1. 1,180 ha Louvakou (Loubomo) fire, 23 September 2026 1.0% of the municipality · 2,667 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,689 ha Souanké fire, 22 September 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,678 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 3,193 ha Souanké fire, 22 September 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 3,172 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 1,374 ha Souanké fire, 4 September 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,364 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 1,114 ha Souanké fire, 17 August 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,106 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 1,314 ha Souanké fire, 1 August 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,305 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,576 ha Souanké fire, 21 July 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,566 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,926 ha Souanké fire, 11 July 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 1,957 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 707 ha Mayoko fire, 11 July 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 1,832 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 1,318 ha Souanké fire, August 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,758 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 1,039 ha Souanké fire, August 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,089 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,292 ha Souanké fire, 18 August 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,283 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 894 ha Souanké fire, 7 August 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,112 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 199 ha Mayoko fire, 27 August 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 1,266 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 393 ha Louvakou (Loubomo) fire, 5 September 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 1,202 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 1,434 ha Souanké fire, August 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,424 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 611 ha Mayoko fire, 28 July 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 1,244 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 1,365 ha Souanké fire, July 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 1,552 ha in total · 11 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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