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Wildfires in Kabongo

Kabongo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 58 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 267,383 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 11).

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 25 Very low 30° · 43 % · 27 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 33° · 37 % · 30 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 34° · 37 % · 32 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 61 % · 52 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 78 % · 32 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 67 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 60 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 64 % · 32 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

267,383
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
58
fires
20,716
km²

How many times has Kabongo burned?

Kabongo has burned 58 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Lubao fire, 24 August 2026, with 3,726 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 5× 18
  4. 7× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 5× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 7× 25
  11. 18× 26
58
fires
11
years with fire
267,383
cumulative ha
24 Aug 2026
most recent

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 Kabongo

  1. 3,726 ha Lubao fire, 24 August 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 5,001 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 7,897 ha Kabongo fire, 23 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,890 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 46 ha Kamina fire, 19 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,099 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 14,143 ha Kabongo fire, 15 August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 14,721 ha in total · 32 days
  5. 18 ha Malemba-Nkulu fire, 15 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 11,672 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 3,019 ha Manono fire, 15 August 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 5,371 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 5,125 ha Kabongo fire, 14 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,086 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 16,911 ha Kabongo fire, 12 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 18,816 ha in total · 22 days
  9. 2,888 ha Kabalo fire, 7 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 6,126 ha in total · 29 days
  10. 72 ha Manono fire, 6 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 6,348 ha in total · 22 days
  11. 2,282 ha Ngandajika fire, August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 9,577 ha in total · 22 days
  12. 131 ha Kabinda fire, August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 15,202 ha in total · 34 days
  13. 6,838 ha Kabongo fire, 31 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,870 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 6,136 ha Kabongo fire, 29 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,087 ha in total · 11 days
  15. 5,115 ha Kabongo fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,258 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 1 ha Malemba-Nkulu fire, 19 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 20,093 ha in total · 28 days
  17. 6,518 ha Kabongo fire, June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,474 ha in total · 24 days
  18. 7,176 ha Kabongo fire, May 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,138 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 2,222 ha Kabongo fire, September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,229 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 5,104 ha Kabongo fire, August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,065 ha in total · 19 days
  21. 5,523 ha Kabongo fire, 29 July 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,493 ha in total · 16 days
  22. 8,553 ha Kabongo fire, 24 July 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,846 ha in total · 21 days
  23. 335 ha Manono fire, 21 July 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 6,521 ha in total · 16 days
  24. 300 ha Manono fire, 21 July 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 9,704 ha in total · 16 days
  25. 5,250 ha Kabongo fire, 19 July 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,798 ha in total · 18 days
  26. 5,772 ha Kabongo fire, June 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,727 ha in total · 10 days
  27. 5,384 ha Kabongo fire, July 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,354 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 1,013 ha Manono fire, 19 July 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 5,034 ha in total · 7 days
  29. 4,670 ha Manono fire, 17 July 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 5,168 ha in total · 12 days
  30. 2,601 ha Kamina fire, June 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 6,545 ha in total · 11 days
  31. 4,885 ha Kabongo fire, August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,001 ha in total · 13 days
  32. 7,771 ha Kabongo fire, 29 July 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,709 ha in total · 9 days
  33. 8,213 ha Kabongo fire, 23 July 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,264 ha in total · 13 days
  34. 84 ha Kamina fire, 19 July 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 7,949 ha in total · 15 days
  35. 2,159 ha Kabongo fire, 19 July 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,348 ha in total · 12 days
  36. 1,227 ha Kamina fire, August 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 5,958 ha in total · 8 days
  37. 5,609 ha Kabongo fire, 25 July 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,460 ha in total · 8 days
  38. 929 ha Kabalo fire, 23 July 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 5,157 ha in total · 18 days
  39. 528 ha Kaniama fire, July 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 6,337 ha in total · 6 days
  40. 5,452 ha Kabongo fire, 6 July 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,423 ha in total · 5 days
  41. 5,027 ha Kabongo fire, 21 July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,461 ha in total · 10 days
  42. 6,039 ha Kabongo fire, 20 July 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,008 ha in total · 12 days
  43. 5,460 ha Kamina fire, 19 July 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 6,175 ha in total · 17 days
  44. 1,393 ha Ngandajika fire, July 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 9,207 ha in total · 11 days
  45. 6,392 ha Kabongo fire, 14 July 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,356 ha in total · 7 days
  46. 1,014 ha Malemba-Nkulu fire, 26 June 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 6,950 ha in total · 17 days
  47. 11,526 ha Kabongo fire, 25 June 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 11,437 ha in total · 17 days
  48. 2,082 ha Kabalo fire, 31 July 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 5,848 ha in total · 14 days
  49. 5,764 ha Kabongo fire, 25 July 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,563 ha in total · 4 days
  50. 9,446 ha Kabongo fire, 22 July 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 11,107 ha in total · 8 days
  51. 4,753 ha Kabongo fire, 16 July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,393 ha in total · 5 days
  52. 5,460 ha Kabongo fire, 11 July 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,428 ha in total · 4 days
  53. 5,503 ha Kabongo fire, August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,735 ha in total · 7 days
  54. 135 ha Kabalo fire, 28 July 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 5,316 ha in total · 8 days
  55. 84 ha Kabalo fire, 28 July 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 7,450 ha in total · 8 days
  56. 6,534 ha Kabongo fire, July 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,499 ha in total · 3 days
  57. 344 ha Manono fire, 22 May 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 5,221 ha in total · 6 days
  58. 18,802 ha Kabongo fire, August 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 21,422 ha in total · 12 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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