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Wildfires in Bukama

Bukama, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 36 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 197,024 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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. Wed 28 Low 32° · 41 % · 30 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Moderate 32° · 49 % · 37 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 57 % · 31 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 57 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 67 % · 25 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 62 % · 30 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 58 % · 28 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 60 % · 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

197,024
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
36
fires
19,065
km²

How many times has Bukama burned?

Bukama has burned 36 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kamina fire, 26 August 2026, with 220 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 197,024 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 155,180 hectares, 8.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 7× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 13× 26
36
fires
10
years with fire
197,024
cumulative ha
155,180
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 Bukama

  1. 220 ha Kamina fire, 26 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,526 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 5,202 ha Bukama fire, 22 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,176 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 545 ha Kamina fire, 20 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 9,314 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 14,916 ha Bukama fire, 16 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 14,847 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 7,104 ha Kamina fire, 15 August 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 18,210 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 1,535 ha Kamina fire, 14 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 9,297 ha in total · 24 days
  7. 6,970 ha Bukama fire, 12 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,938 ha in total · 57 days
  8. 5,763 ha Bukama fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,727 ha in total · 21 days
  9. 8,607 ha Bukama fire, 24 July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,566 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 5,387 ha Bukama fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,360 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 6,917 ha Bukama fire, 29 June 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,351 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 2,080 ha Bukama fire, 16 June 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,206 ha in total · 25 days
  13. 8,626 ha Bukama fire, 12 June 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,578 ha in total · 20 days
  14. 3,543 ha Bukama fire, August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,862 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 3,245 ha Bukama fire, July 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,617 ha in total · 14 days
  16. 6,307 ha Bukama fire, August 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,452 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 427 ha Kamina fire, 1 August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 12,071 ha in total · 12 days
  18. 5,323 ha Bukama fire, 1 August 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,296 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 5,231 ha Bukama fire, 1 August 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,206 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 8,833 ha Bukama fire, August 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,798 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 5,400 ha Bukama fire, June 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,373 ha in total · 16 days
  22. 7,755 ha Bukama fire, August 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,718 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 25 ha Kamina fire, 20 July 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 10,289 ha in total · 11 days
  24. 5,211 ha Bukama fire, July 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,626 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 7,497 ha Bukama fire, June 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,459 ha in total · 20 days
  26. 6,083 ha Bukama fire, June 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,034 ha in total · 15 days
  27. 6,927 ha Bukama fire, 14 July 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,893 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 3,784 ha Bukama fire, 12 July 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,779 ha in total · 7 days
  29. 5,890 ha Bukama fire, June 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,051 ha in total · 12 days
  30. 6,643 ha Bukama fire, 10 August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,612 ha in total · 11 days
  31. 9,190 ha Bukama fire, 9 August 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 9,192 ha in total · 11 days
  32. 6,705 ha Bukama fire, 1 August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 19,846 ha in total · 17 days
  33. 1,559 ha Kamina fire, 30 July 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 9,354 ha in total · 9 days
  34. 6,492 ha Bukama fire, 4 July 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,573 ha in total · 21 days
  35. 2,264 ha Bukama fire, 2 July 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,135 ha in total · 4 days
  36. 8,817 ha Bukama fire, June 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 9,170 ha in total · 13 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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