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Wildfires in Basoko

Basoko, Congo - Kinshasa, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2024: 94,513 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.1% 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. Fri 23 Very low 36° · 41 % · 17 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 34° · 46 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 58 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 71 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 65 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 61 % · 40 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 67 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 59 % · 26 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

94,513
hectares burned
4.1 %
of its area
6
fires
22,813
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Basoko

  1. 5,726 ha Basoko fire, 23 February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,687 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 37,715 ha Basoko fire, 22 February 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 39,702 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 16,368 ha Basoko fire, 22 February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 16,255 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 7,596 ha Basoko fire, 28 February 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,545 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 15,477 ha Basoko fire, 28 February 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 15,371 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 11,631 ha Basoko fire, 28 February 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 12,722 ha in total · 4 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).