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Wildfires in Kaniama

Kaniama, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 60,692 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 3 Very low 29° · 48 % · 19 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 46 % · 22 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 46 % · 29 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 29° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 29° · 60 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 29° · 62 % · 24 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 30° · 55 % · 55 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 62 % · 44 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

60,692
hectares burned
4.4 %
of its area
13
fires
13,723
km²

How many times has Kaniama burned?

Kaniama has burned 13 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kaniama fire, 13 August 2026, with 5,774 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 60,692 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 52,518 hectares, 3.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
13
fires
9
years with fire
60,692
cumulative ha
52,518
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 Kaniama

  1. 5,774 ha Kaniama fire, 13 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,735 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 7,297 ha Kaniama fire, 7 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,260 ha in total · 32 days
  3. 56 ha Luilu fire, July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 6,159 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 5,709 ha Kaniama fire, July 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,792 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 8,894 ha Kaniama fire, August 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,850 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 5,234 ha Kaniama fire, August 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,208 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 4,582 ha Ngandajika fire, May 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 5,497 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 516 ha Kamina fire, 1 August 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 5,104 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 5,285 ha Kaniama fire, July 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,246 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 5,770 ha Kaniama fire, July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,337 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 663 ha Kamina fire, 12 August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 5,743 ha in total · 15 days
  12. 4,811 ha Kaniama fire, July 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,057 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 6,101 ha Kaniama fire, August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,061 ha in total · 2 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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