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Wildfires in Kabambare

Kabambare, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 111,424 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. Sun 8 Very low 31° · 48 % · 23 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Very low 33° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low 32° · 51 % · 21 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very low 28° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 27° · 68 % · 30 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 28° · 66 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very low 29° · 87 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Kabambare: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

111,424
hectares burned
5.9 %
of its area
13
fires
18,964
km²

How many times has Kabambare burned?

Kabambare has burned 13 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kalemie fire, 21 August 2026, with 3,977 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 111,424 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 101,527 hectares, 5.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 7× 26
13
fires
7
years with fire
111,424
cumulative ha
101,527
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 Kabambare

  1. 3,977 ha Kalemie fire, 21 August 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 17,453 ha in total · 22 days
  2. 6,724 ha Kabambare fire, 21 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,681 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 25 ha Fizi fire, 18 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 6,563 ha in total · 24 days
  4. 8,011 ha Kabambare fire, 15 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,953 ha in total · 33 days
  5. 46,536 ha Kabambare fire, 9 August 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 41,841 ha in total · 49 days
  6. 5,155 ha Kabambare fire, 18 June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,121 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 5,192 ha Kabambare fire, 15 June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,157 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 7,042 ha Kabambare fire, August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,991 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 5,241 ha Kabambare fire, July 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,208 ha in total · 25 days
  10. 6,665 ha Kabambare fire, June 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,619 ha in total · 22 days
  11. 6,486 ha Kabambare fire, July 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,446 ha in total · 20 days
  12. 5,252 ha Kabambare fire, May 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,216 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 5,119 ha Kabambare fire, August 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,084 ha in total · 20 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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