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Wildfires in Aketi

Aketi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 21,762 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Sat 31 Very low 33° · 48 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 33° · 40 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 33° · 48 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 33° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 34° · 50 % · 38 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 29° · 65 % · 32 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 57 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 29° · 65 % · 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

21,762
hectares burned
0.8 %
of its area
3
fires
27,489
km²

How many times has Aketi burned?

Aketi has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2021, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Bumba fire, 22 February 2026, with 15,689 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 21,762 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,931 hectares, 0.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
21,762
cumulative ha
14,931
distinct ha

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 Democratic Republic of the Congo →

Fires that entered Aketi

  1. 15,689 ha Bumba fire, 22 February 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 39,883 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 5,916 ha Aketi fire, February 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,338 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 158 ha Yakoma fire, 20 February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 8,402 ha in total · 19 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Referenciel Géographique Commun, OCHA DR Congo (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). 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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