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Wildfires in Dimbelenge

Dimbelenge, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 68,842 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 Low 34° · 33 % · 22 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 34° · 39 % · 28 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 92 % · 31 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 64 % · 22 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 51 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 69 % · 27 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 74 % · 19 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

68,842
hectares burned
5.9 %
of its area
11
fires
11,755
km²

How many times has Dimbelenge burned?

Dimbelenge has burned 11 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Dimbelenge fire, 13 August 2026, with 7,187 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 68,842 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 66,716 hectares, 5.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
11
fires
5
years with fire
68,842
cumulative ha
66,716
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 Dimbelenge

  1. 7,187 ha Dimbelenge fire, 13 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,159 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 8,139 ha Dimbelenge fire, 13 August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,099 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 4,684 ha Lusambo fire, 13 August 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 10,786 ha in total · 26 days
  4. 7,061 ha Dimbelenge fire, July 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,012 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 572 ha Demba fire, August 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 6,187 ha in total · 23 days
  6. 6,846 ha Dimbelenge fire, August 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,795 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 1,549 ha Demba fire, July 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 7,775 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 9,173 ha Dimbelenge fire, 16 July 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 9,112 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 5,003 ha Dimbelenge fire, 15 July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,043 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 11,800 ha Dimbelenge fire, 14 July 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 11,729 ha in total · 17 days
  11. 6,830 ha Dimbelenge fire, 9 July 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 11,689 ha in total · 26 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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