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Wildfires in Dilolo

Dilolo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 67,896 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.7% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 27).

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 Moderate 32° · 35 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 33° · 31 % · 34 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 32° · 39 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 34° · 33 % · 17 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 47 % · 44 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 54 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 56 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 55 % · 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

67,896
hectares burned
2.7 %
of its area
12
fires
24,940
km²

How many times has Dilolo burned?

Dilolo has burned 12 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Dilolo fire, 16 August 2026, with 5,510 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 67,896 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 65,036 hectares, 2.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 6× 26
12
fires
7
years with fire
67,896
cumulative ha
65,036
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 Dilolo

  1. 5,510 ha Dilolo fire, 16 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,479 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 5,396 ha Dilolo fire, 12 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,356 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 5,791 ha Dilolo fire, 12 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,754 ha in total · 22 days
  4. 5,018 ha Dilolo fire, 10 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,138 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 9,973 ha Dilolo fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 9,896 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 100 ha Sandoa fire, 27 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,734 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 5,403 ha Dilolo fire, July 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,377 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 6,969 ha Dilolo fire, August 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,916 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 6,614 ha Dilolo fire, July 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,582 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 5,082 ha Dilolo fire, July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,136 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 6,718 ha Dilolo fire, August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,667 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 5,323 ha Dilolo fire, August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,286 ha in total · 5 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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