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Wildfires in Faradje

Faradje, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 27 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 182,882 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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. Tue 3 Low 33° · 43 % · 26 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Moderate 34° · 29 % · 33 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Moderate 36° · 26 % · 35 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Moderate 36° · 23 % · 32 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 34° · 39 % · 36 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 33° · 48 % · 34 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 32° · 47 % · 56 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 31° · 77 % · 55 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

182,882
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
27
fires
12,663
km²

How many times has Faradje burned?

Faradje has burned 27 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Faradje fire, 24 February 2026, with 9,161 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 182,882 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 124,730 hectares, 9.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 6× 26
27
fires
11
years with fire
182,882
cumulative ha
124,730
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 Faradje

  1. 9,161 ha Faradje fire, 24 February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 9,099 ha in total · 23 days
  2. 4,475 ha Faradje fire, 24 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,393 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 4,701 ha Faradje fire, 24 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,353 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 7,336 ha Dungu fire, 12 January 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 58,059 ha in total · 26 days
  5. 257 ha Dungu fire, 9 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 45,193 ha in total · 22 days
  6. 47,532 ha Faradje fire, January 2026 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 47,191 ha in total · 30 days
  7. 81 ha Dungu fire, 16 January 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 27,305 ha in total · 25 days
  8. 5,221 ha Faradje fire, February 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,182 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 652 ha Dungu fire, 9 January 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 35,499 ha in total · 21 days
  10. 5,561 ha Faradje fire, January 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,719 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 292 ha Dungu fire, 3 January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 7,023 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 476 ha Dungu fire, 23 December 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 6,810 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 9,601 ha Faradje fire, January 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 16,806 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 95 ha Dungu fire, 15 January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 14,387 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 1,413 ha Faradje fire, 13 February 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,087 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 5,944 ha Faradje fire, 9 February 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,900 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 7,821 ha Dungu fire, 22 January 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 123,194 ha in total · 12 days
  18. 3,474 ha Dungu fire, 10 February 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 44,131 ha in total · 12 days
  19. 27,801 ha Faradje fire, January 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 80,671 ha in total · 25 days
  20. 6,716 ha Faradje fire, 22 January 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,666 ha in total · 13 days
  21. 6,389 ha Faradje fire, 16 January 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,342 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 4,842 ha Dungu fire, 15 January 2018 0.4% of the municipality · 43,572 ha in total · 23 days
  23. 1,299 ha Dungu fire, 28 December 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 16,567 ha in total · 13 days
  24. 1,184 ha Dungu fire, 12 January 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 58,675 ha in total · 12 days
  25. 20,457 ha Faradje fire, January 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 22,039 ha in total · 16 days
  26. 91 ha Faradje fire, February 2016 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,230 ha in total · 18 days
  27. 9 ha Dungu fire, 18 January 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 17,742 ha in total · 7 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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