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Wildfires in Kasenga

Kasenga, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 130,654 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.4% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 32).

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. Mon 26 High 29° · 28 % · 55 km/h
  2. Tue 27 High 29° · 29 % · 41 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Low 29° · 33 % · 38 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Moderate 29° · 48 % · 33 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 54 % · 32 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 60 % · 41 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 42 % · 43 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 26° · 70 % · 40 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

130,654
hectares burned
5.4 %
of its area
14
fires
24,040
km²

How many times has Kasenga burned?

Kasenga has burned 14 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kasenga fire, 24 July 2026, with 5,091 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 130,654 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 115,431 hectares, 4.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
14
fires
8
years with fire
130,654
cumulative ha
115,431
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 Kasenga

  1. 5,091 ha Kasenga fire, 24 July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,049 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 42,552 ha Kasenga fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 42,443 ha in total · 49 days
  3. 6,931 ha Kasenga fire, June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,885 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 10,172 ha Kasenga fire, August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 10,101 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 5,111 ha Kasenga fire, October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,075 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 7,528 ha Kasenga fire, September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,476 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 10,184 ha Kasenga fire, August 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 10,117 ha in total · 23 days
  8. 5,111 ha Kasenga fire, August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,086 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 5,547 ha Kasenga fire, September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,500 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 8,993 ha Kasenga fire, September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,932 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 7,927 ha Kasenga fire, August 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,864 ha in total · 15 days
  12. 45 ha Lubudi fire, 15 July 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 6,292 ha in total · 19 days
  13. 5,361 ha Kasenga fire, July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,326 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 10,099 ha Kasenga fire, August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 10,033 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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