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Wildfires in Bagata

Bagata, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 123,305 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.1% 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. Sat 24 Low 36° · 37 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 30° · 61 % · 27 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 33° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 54 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 51 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 61 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 77 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 57 % · 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

123,305
hectares burned
7.1 %
of its area
20
fires
17,354
km²

How many times has Bagata burned?

Bagata has burned 20 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Bagata fire, 24 August 2026, with 17,857 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 123,305 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 101,690 hectares, 5.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 11× 26
20
fires
5
years with fire
123,305
cumulative ha
101,690
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 Bagata

  1. 17,857 ha Bagata fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 17,823 ha in total · 23 days
  2. 9,695 ha Bagata fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 9,632 ha in total · 22 days
  3. 4,570 ha Bagata fire, 12 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,250 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 6,078 ha Bagata fire, 12 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,036 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 9,242 ha Bagata fire, 9 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 9,179 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 9,067 ha Bagata fire, 8 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 9,006 ha in total · 28 days
  7. 3,788 ha Idiofa fire, 6 August 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 10,902 ha in total · 28 days
  8. 4,491 ha Bagata fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,463 ha in total · 28 days
  9. 13,539 ha Bulungu fire, 3 August 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 16,677 ha in total · 20 days
  10. 8,698 ha Bagata fire, 1 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 17,237 ha in total · 27 days
  11. 8,171 ha Bulungu fire, 25 July 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 53,634 ha in total · 40 days
  12. 9,195 ha Bagata fire, 28 August 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 9,134 ha in total · 14 days
  13. 1,109 ha Bagata fire, 13 August 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 9,632 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 1,440 ha Bulungu fire, 11 August 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 7,723 ha in total · 17 days
  15. 5,095 ha Bagata fire, 10 August 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,060 ha in total · 15 days
  16. 198 ha Bulungu fire, 3 August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 5,439 ha in total · 13 days
  17. 6,092 ha Bagata fire, 2 August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,903 ha in total · 12 days
  18. 924 ha Bulungu fire, 1 August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 5,050 ha in total · 16 days
  19. 441 ha Bulungu fire, 14 August 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 6,138 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 3,616 ha Bulungu fire, 1 August 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 8,322 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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