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Wildfires in Kapanga

Kapanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 101,687 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.0% 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. Fri 13 Very low 27° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 26° · 75 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 28° · 61 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 29° · 68 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 25° · 88 % · 20 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 26° · 70 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 29° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 29° · 60 % · 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 Kapanga: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

101,687
hectares burned
4.0 %
of its area
22
fires
25,124
km²

How many times has Kapanga burned?

Kapanga has burned 22 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kapanga fire, August 2026, with 6,109 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 101,687 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 87,159 hectares, 3.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 4× 26
22
fires
9
years with fire
101,687
cumulative ha
87,159
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 Kapanga

  1. 6,109 ha Kapanga fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,069 ha in total · 23 days
  2. 5,515 ha Kapanga fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,048 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 1,698 ha Luiza fire, 20 June 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 9,750 ha in total · 24 days
  4. 182 ha Luiza fire, 6 June 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,853 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 9,254 ha Kapanga fire, August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 9,185 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 8,127 ha Kapanga fire, 31 July 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 8,067 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 5,690 ha Kapanga fire, 2 July 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,655 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 3,930 ha Kapanga fire, June 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,600 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 5,604 ha Kapanga fire, 26 July 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,570 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 4,839 ha Kapanga fire, 18 July 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,190 ha in total · 14 days
  11. 4,412 ha Kapanga fire, 4 July 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,569 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 1,101 ha Kapanga fire, June 2022 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,029 ha in total · 17 days
  13. 6,142 ha Kapanga fire, July 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,105 ha in total · 18 days
  14. 2,767 ha Kapanga fire, July 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,057 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 5,852 ha Kapanga fire, August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,190 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 1,993 ha Luiza fire, 1 July 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 5,797 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 5,371 ha Kapanga fire, July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,331 ha in total · 16 days
  18. 1,284 ha Luiza fire, July 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 5,048 ha in total · 19 days
  19. 2,047 ha Luiza fire, 30 July 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 5,089 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 6,693 ha Kapanga fire, July 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,686 ha in total · 16 days
  21. 1,299 ha Luiza fire, 2 July 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 5,129 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 11,775 ha Luiza fire, 1 July 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 14,581 ha in total · 9 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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