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Wildfires in Bondo

Bondo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 69,764 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.8% 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. Mon 26 Very low 35° · 35 % · 26 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 68 % · 30 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 34° · 37 % · 40 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 34° · 39 % · 28 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 60 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 57 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 55 % · 31 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

69,764
hectares burned
1.8 %
of its area
8
fires
37,890
km²

How many times has Bondo burned?

Bondo has burned 8 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2020, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Bondo fire, February 2026, with 8,558 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 69,764 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 60,688 hectares, 1.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
8
fires
4
years with fire
69,764
cumulative ha
60,688
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 Bondo

  1. 8,558 ha Bondo fire, February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,506 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 5,080 ha Bondo fire, 22 February 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,046 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 28,885 ha Bondo fire, 12 February 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 28,708 ha in total · 32 days
  4. 2,242 ha Ango fire, 30 January 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 5,118 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 7,119 ha Bondo fire, 29 January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,069 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 6,530 ha Bondo fire, 27 January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,490 ha in total · 31 days
  7. 6,211 ha Bondo fire, 27 January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,173 ha in total · 32 days
  8. 5,141 ha Bondo fire, 26 January 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,102 ha in total · 9 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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