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Wildfires in Bumba

Bumba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 419,437 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% 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. Sat 24 Very low 28° · 69 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 27° · 92 % · 24 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 59 % · 17 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 68 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 57 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 85 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 68 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 76 % · 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

419,437
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
22
fires
16,007
km²

How many times has Bumba burned?

Bumba has burned 22 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Bumba fire, 6 March 2026, with 5,281 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 419,437 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 318,217 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 8× 24
  10.   25
  11. 12× 26
22
fires
4
years with fire
419,437
cumulative ha
318,217
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 Bumba

  1. 5,281 ha Bumba fire, 6 March 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,245 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 10,140 ha Bumba fire, 5 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 10,075 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 11,178 ha Bumba fire, 5 March 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 11,102 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 12,775 ha Bumba fire, 5 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 12,689 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 41,859 ha Bumba fire, 4 March 2026 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 41,571 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 7,310 ha Bumba fire, 24 February 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,262 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 5,503 ha Bumba fire, 24 February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,467 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 18,978 ha Bumba fire, 24 February 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 18,854 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 6,297 ha Bumba fire, 24 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,255 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 2,261 ha Basoko fire, 22 February 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 39,702 ha in total · 21 days
  11. 127,084 ha Bumba fire, 22 February 2026 where it started 7.9% of the municipality · 126,248 ha in total · 19 days
  12. 24,455 ha Bumba fire, 22 February 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 39,883 ha in total · 18 days
  13. 8,064 ha Bumba fire, 9 March 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,011 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 8,123 ha Bumba fire, 9 March 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,070 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 39,049 ha Bumba fire, 6 March 2024 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 39,578 ha in total · 11 days
  16. 41,723 ha Bumba fire, 6 March 2024 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 41,442 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 1,178 ha Basoko fire, 28 February 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 12,722 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 464 ha Aketi fire, February 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 6,338 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 9,661 ha Bumba fire, 28 February 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 9,599 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 24,815 ha Bumba fire, 27 February 2024 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 24,645 ha in total · 17 days
  21. 5,726 ha Bumba fire, February 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,687 ha in total · 11 days
  22. 7,512 ha Bumba fire, March 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,460 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).

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