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Wildfires in Bafwasende

Bafwasende, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 43,009 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 49 % · 17 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 69 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 67 % · 24 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 66 % · 24 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 58 % · 29 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 33° · 52 % · 19 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

43,009
hectares burned
0.9 %
of its area
4
fires
49,136
km²

How many times has Bafwasende burned?

Bafwasende has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Bafwasende fire, March 2026, with 7,168 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 43,009 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 25,641 hectares, 0.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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  11. 3× 26
4
fires
2
years with fire
43,009
cumulative ha
25,641
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 Bafwasende

  1. 7,168 ha Bafwasende fire, March 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,960 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 5,307 ha Bafwasende fire, 17 February 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,271 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 19,736 ha Bafwasende fire, 12 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 20,526 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 10,798 ha Bafwasende fire, February 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 10,725 ha in total · 12 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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