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Wildfires in Ango

Ango, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 37 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 360,844 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 24 Very low 32° · 52 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 60 % · 29 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 62 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 67 % · 34 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 66 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 64 % · 31 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

360,844
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
37
fires
34,544
km²

How many times has Ango burned?

Ango has burned 37 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Ango fire, 24 February 2026, with 5,760 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 360,844 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 266,343 hectares, 7.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 7× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 8× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 2× 26
37
fires
10
years with fire
360,844
cumulative ha
266,343
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 Ango

  1. 5,760 ha Ango fire, 24 February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,719 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 11,493 ha Ango fire, 1 February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 11,413 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 7,191 ha Ango fire, December 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,147 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 8,070 ha Ango fire, 30 January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,014 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 5,168 ha Ango fire, 29 January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,133 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 6,137 ha Ango fire, 13 January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,097 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 7,204 ha Ango fire, December 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,157 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 28,572 ha Ango fire, February 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 28,374 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 5,653 ha Ango fire, 18 January 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,617 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 6,598 ha Ango fire, 16 January 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,554 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 8,062 ha Ango fire, February 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,007 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 5,623 ha Ango fire, January 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,586 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 2,908 ha Ango fire, 31 January 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,118 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 11,350 ha Ango fire, 29 January 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 11,271 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 6,227 ha Ango fire, 23 January 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,187 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 7,827 ha Ango fire, 22 January 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,771 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 29,651 ha Ango fire, 21 January 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 29,468 ha in total · 11 days
  18. 323 ha Dungu fire, 20 January 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 6,702 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 8,076 ha Ango fire, 19 January 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,024 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 31,150 ha Ango fire, 7 January 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 30,940 ha in total · 17 days
  21. 8,934 ha Ango fire, 18 January 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 8,875 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 5,132 ha Ango fire, 9 January 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,095 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 6,747 ha Ango fire, 2 January 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,700 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 14,641 ha Ango fire, 30 December 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 14,543 ha in total · 8 days
  25. 10,404 ha Ango fire, 29 December 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 10,337 ha in total · 6 days
  26. 5,644 ha Ango fire, 29 December 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,604 ha in total · 9 days
  27. 7,058 ha Ango fire, 21 December 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,010 ha in total · 8 days
  28. 19,254 ha Ango fire, 19 December 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 19,129 ha in total · 9 days
  29. 6,478 ha Ango fire, 5 January 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,437 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 5,860 ha Ango fire, 2 January 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,822 ha in total · 8 days
  31. 6,564 ha Ango fire, 21 January 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,518 ha in total · 4 days
  32. 6,986 ha Ango fire, 16 January 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,942 ha in total · 4 days
  33. 12,440 ha Ango fire, 3 January 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 12,359 ha in total · 7 days
  34. 10,682 ha Ango fire, 3 January 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 10,605 ha in total · 8 days
  35. 5,117 ha Ango fire, 2 January 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,079 ha in total · 4 days
  36. 19,829 ha Ango fire, 25 January 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 19,692 ha in total · 16 days
  37. 6,030 ha Ango fire, 5 January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,991 ha in total · 5 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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