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Wildfires in Kasongo

Kasongo, Congo - Kinshasa, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 58,826 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 Low 34° · 41 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 36° · 34 % · 37 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 33° · 47 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 36° · 36 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 35° · 45 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 63 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 72 % · 38 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 78 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

58,826
hectares burned
3.5 %
of its area
13
fires
16,660
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kasongo

  1. 2,954 ha Lubao fire, 27 June 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 13,633 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 10,431 ha Kasongo fire, June 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 10,358 ha in total · 19 days
  3. 3,942 ha Kasongo fire, June 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,679 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,550 ha Kongolo fire, 21 June 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 6,407 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 198 ha Kongolo fire, 26 July 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 7,063 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 5,736 ha Kasongo fire, July 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,697 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 5,989 ha Kasongo fire, June 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,945 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 2,772 ha Kasongo fire, 7 July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,666 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 6,795 ha Kasongo fire, 6 July 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,749 ha in total · 19 days
  10. 6,789 ha Kasongo fire, June 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,742 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 674 ha Lubao fire, 4 July 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 7,248 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 5,177 ha Kasongo fire, 22 June 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,140 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 5,817 ha Kasongo fire, 6 June 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,779 ha in total · 7 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).