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Wildfires in Bambesa

Bambesa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2026: 6,763 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.7% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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. Fri 13 Moderate 32° · 41 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Moderate 34° · 34 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Moderate 35° · 29 % · 29 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Moderate 36° · 29 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 32° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 31° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 32° · 51 % · 28 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 32° · 53 % · 22 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Bambesa: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

6,763
hectares burned
0.7 %
of its area
1
fires
9,938
km²

How many times has Bambesa burned?

Bambesa has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Bambesa fire, February 2026, with 6,763 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
6,763
cumulative ha
16 Feb 2026
most recent

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 Bambesa

  1. 6,763 ha Bambesa fire, February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,715 ha in total · 22 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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