Wildfires in Fizi
Fizi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 119,044 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.9% 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- Thu 29 Very low 23° · 85 % · 28 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 23° · 92 % · 22 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 24° · 79 % · 26 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 26° · 69 % · 25 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 23° · 82 % · 28 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 24° · 79 % · 27 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 27° · 58 % · 25 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 28° · 72 % · 27 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
- 119,044
- hectares burned
- 7.9 %
- of its area
- 14
- fires
- 15,121
- km²
How many times has Fizi burned?
Fizi has burned 14 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mwenga fire, 26 August 2026, with 1,034 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 119,044 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 106,907 hectares, 7.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.
- 14
- fires
- 4
- years with fire
- 119,044
- cumulative ha
- 106,907
- 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 Fizi
- 1,034 ha Mwenga fire, 26 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 5,807 ha in total · 16 days
- 6,255 ha Fizi fire, 22 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,217 ha in total · 26 days
- 6,587 ha Fizi fire, 18 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,563 ha in total · 24 days
- 5,245 ha Fizi fire, 15 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,210 ha in total · 35 days
- 555 ha Kabambare fire, 9 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 46,773 ha in total · 49 days
- 12,188 ha Fizi fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 12,101 ha in total · 46 days
- 8,398 ha Fizi fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,344 ha in total · 26 days
- 18,242 ha Fizi fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 18,128 ha in total · 21 days
- 21,577 ha Fizi fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 21,432 ha in total · 46 days
- 10,098 ha Fizi fire, June 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 10,029 ha in total · 35 days
- 6,158 ha Fizi fire, May 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,118 ha in total · 19 days
- 10,732 ha Fizi fire, August 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 10,654 ha in total · 31 days
- 5,272 ha Fizi fire, August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,234 ha in total · 18 days
- 6,702 ha Fizi fire, September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,656 ha in total · 25 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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