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Wildfires in Gungu

Gungu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 27 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 144,250 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.7% 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
  1. Tue 10 Very low 30° · 49 % · 29 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 28° · 67 % · 25 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Very low 29° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Very low 26° · 75 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very low 29° · 58 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Very low 30° · 64 % · 36 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very low 31° · 61 % · 24 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 30° · 62 % · 31 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Gungu: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

144,250
hectares burned
9.7 %
of its area
27
fires
14,901
km²

How many times has Gungu burned?

Gungu has burned 27 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Idiofa fire, 17 August 2026, with 126 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 144,250 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 115,725 hectares, 7.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11. 11× 26
27
fires
8
years with fire
144,250
cumulative ha
115,725
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 Gungu

  1. 126 ha Idiofa fire, 17 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 13,910 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 5,605 ha Gungu fire, 17 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,572 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 5,547 ha Gungu fire, 1 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,508 ha in total · 24 days
  4. 9,935 ha Gungu fire, 1 August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 9,896 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 5,795 ha Gungu fire, 1 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,756 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 8,472 ha Gungu fire, 27 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 12,890 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 5,577 ha Gungu fire, July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,076 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 11,312 ha Bulungu fire, July 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 65,332 ha in total · 53 days
  9. 9,963 ha Gungu fire, May 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 9,894 ha in total · 22 days
  10. 15,940 ha Gungu fire, 25 May 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 15,836 ha in total · 20 days
  11. 16,633 ha Gungu fire, 22 May 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 17,034 ha in total · 32 days
  12. 2,500 ha Gungu fire, July 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,692 ha in total · 24 days
  13. 98 ha Feshi fire, 24 June 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 7,050 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 2,853 ha Gungu fire, June 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,601 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 249 ha Kamonia fire, 5 July 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 10,228 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 6,154 ha Gungu fire, June 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,112 ha in total · 13 days
  17. 63 ha Kamonia fire, 19 June 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 9,772 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 70 ha Ilebo fire, July 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 5,304 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 163 ha Masi-Manimba fire, 17 July 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 6,294 ha in total · 30 days
  20. 7,255 ha Idiofa fire, 14 July 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 10,682 ha in total · 37 days
  21. 1,606 ha Masi-Manimba fire, 14 July 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 5,497 ha in total · 24 days
  22. 3,008 ha Gungu fire, June 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,165 ha in total · 10 days
  23. 5,440 ha Gungu fire, June 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,404 ha in total · 12 days
  24. 125 ha Masi-Manimba fire, 20 July 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 6,414 ha in total · 26 days
  25. 7,060 ha Gungu fire, 19 July 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 10,839 ha in total · 26 days
  26. 7,598 ha Gungu fire, 8 July 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,547 ha in total · 16 days
  27. 5,102 ha Gungu fire, June 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,069 ha in total · 6 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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