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Wildfires in Banalia

Banalia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 32,392 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.4% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Mon 9 Low 35° · 34 % · 27 km/h
  2. Tue 10 Low 34° · 51 % · 27 km/h
  3. Wed 11 Very low 33° · 44 % · 25 km/h
  4. Thu 12 Very low 28° · 75 % · 37 km/h
  5. Fri 13 Very low 30° · 59 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 59 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sun 15 Very low 32° · 57 % · 31 km/h
  8. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 64 % · 27 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 Banalia: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

32,392
hectares burned
1.4 %
of its area
4
fires
23,770
km²

How many times has Banalia burned?

Banalia has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Banalia fire, 6 March 2026, with 5,256 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 32,392 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 29,104 hectares, 1.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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4
fires
2
years with fire
32,392
cumulative ha
29,104
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 Banalia

  1. 5,256 ha Banalia fire, 6 March 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,221 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 5,475 ha Banalia fire, 26 February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,439 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 16,366 ha Banalia fire, February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 16,259 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 5,295 ha Banalia fire, February 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,260 ha in total · 17 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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