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Wildfires in Kambove

Kambove, Congo - Kinshasa, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 57,288 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 40).

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. Fri 23 High 33° · 22 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 34° · 16 % · 52 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 33° · 18 % · 50 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 32° · 21 % · 44 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 33° · 26 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 33° · 23 % · 43 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 32° · 33 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 41 % · 33 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

57,288
hectares burned
2.7 %
of its area
14
fires
21,524
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kambove

  1. 6,987 ha Kambove fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,942 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 11,550 ha Kambove fire, 31 July 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 11,473 ha in total · 33 days
  3. 5,547 ha Kambove fire, August 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,506 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 3,719 ha Kambove fire, August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,497 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 50 ha Lubudi fire, August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 5,990 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,037 ha Lubudi fire, August 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 5,517 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 5,825 ha Kambove fire, August 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,187 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 3,104 ha Lubudi fire, 22 July 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 6,292 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 81 ha Lubudi fire, 20 July 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 6,854 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 876 ha Lubudi fire, August 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 6,532 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 5,324 ha Kambove fire, August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,292 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 9,402 ha Kambove fire, August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 10,005 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 10 ha Lubudi fire, 7 August 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 6,219 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 3,776 ha Lubudi fire, July 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 5,599 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).