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Wildfires in Kailo

Kailo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 13,168 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.6% 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 27 Very low 30° · 63 % · 28 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 53 % · 23 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 60 % · 20 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 66 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 78 % · 24 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 26° · 91 % · 26 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 63 % · 18 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

13,168
hectares burned
0.6 %
of its area
2
fires
23,103
km²

How many times has Kailo burned?

Kailo has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Kailo fire, 22 August 2026, with 5,191 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
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  11. 2× 26
2
fires
1
years with fire
13,168
cumulative ha
22 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 Kailo

  1. 5,191 ha Kailo fire, 22 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,562 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 7,978 ha Kailo fire, 14 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,923 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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