Wildfires in Businga
Businga, Congo - Kinshasa, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2024: 16,475 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.1% 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- Fri 23 Very low 33° · 49 % · 24 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 32° · 60 % · 30 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 33° · 69 % · 16 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 30° · 64 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 30° · 63 % · 31 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 31° · 57 % · 23 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 30° · 56 % · 39 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 30° · 63 % · 28 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
- 16,475
- hectares burned
- 1.1 %
- of its area
- 4
- fires
- 15,561
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Businga
- 215 ha Lisala fire, 22 February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 36,223 ha in total · 21 days
- 649 ha Lisala fire, 20 February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 27,279 ha in total · 23 days
- 4,797 ha Businga fire, 9 March 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,695 ha in total · 5 days
- 10,814 ha Businga fire, 4 March 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 10,743 ha in total · 10 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).