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Wildfires in Kazumba

Kazumba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 37 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 457,591 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 37% 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. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 39 % · 20 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 33° · 39 % · 18 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 33° · 45 % · 17 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 28° · 68 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 55 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 32° · 50 % · 29 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 31° · 60 % · 26 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 30° · 90 % · 30 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

457,591
hectares burned
37 %
of its area
37
fires
12,388
km²

How many times has Kazumba burned?

Kazumba has burned 37 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kazumba fire, 22 August 2026, with 6,146 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 457,591 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 249,902 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 7× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 8× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 7× 26
37
fires
9
years with fire
457,591
cumulative ha
249,902
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 Kazumba

  1. 6,146 ha Kazumba fire, 22 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,109 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 9,478 ha Kazumba fire, 13 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 9,419 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 12,203 ha Kazumba fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 12,126 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 28,870 ha Kazumba fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 28,678 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 5,334 ha Kazumba fire, 2 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,296 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 7,466 ha Kazumba fire, 1 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,414 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 48,664 ha Kazumba fire, 27 July 2026 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 68,292 ha in total · 41 days
  8. 7,004 ha Kazumba fire, 22 July 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,957 ha in total · 27 days
  9. 8,964 ha Kazumba fire, 20 July 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,906 ha in total · 20 days
  10. 3,396 ha Kazumba fire, 20 July 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,806 ha in total · 24 days
  11. 9,743 ha Kazumba fire, 19 July 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 9,679 ha in total · 30 days
  12. 7,953 ha Kazumba fire, 26 July 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,909 ha in total · 19 days
  13. 13,019 ha Kazumba fire, 19 July 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 42,106 ha in total · 33 days
  14. 6,219 ha Kazumba fire, 7 August 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,178 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 10,478 ha Kazumba fire, 5 August 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 10,418 ha in total · 14 days
  16. 7,385 ha Kazumba fire, 4 August 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,339 ha in total · 18 days
  17. 5,829 ha Kazumba fire, 2 August 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,790 ha in total · 15 days
  18. 12,040 ha Kamonia fire, 2 August 2023 1.0% of the municipality · 58,681 ha in total · 15 days
  19. 14,073 ha Kazumba fire, 2 August 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 15,104 ha in total · 16 days
  20. 11,998 ha Kazumba fire, 2 August 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 11,919 ha in total · 18 days
  21. 6,138 ha Kazumba fire, 23 July 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,100 ha in total · 22 days
  22. 12,915 ha Kazumba fire, 21 July 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 12,840 ha in total · 30 days
  23. 12,958 ha Kazumba fire, 20 July 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 12,881 ha in total · 30 days
  24. 4,581 ha Kazumba fire, 17 July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,468 ha in total · 27 days
  25. 7,301 ha Kazumba fire, 16 July 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,250 ha in total · 17 days
  26. 5,232 ha Kazumba fire, 15 July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,195 ha in total · 16 days
  27. 18,130 ha Kazumba fire, 15 July 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 18,019 ha in total · 25 days
  28. 92,287 ha Kazumba fire, 15 July 2020 where it started 7.4% of the municipality · 148,354 ha in total · 36 days
  29. 1,672 ha Kamonia fire, August 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 16,431 ha in total · 26 days
  30. 4,610 ha Kazumba fire, August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,751 ha in total · 11 days
  31. 6,200 ha Kazumba fire, 27 July 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,161 ha in total · 12 days
  32. 8,830 ha Kazumba fire, 24 July 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,774 ha in total · 24 days
  33. 5,597 ha Kazumba fire, 20 July 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,561 ha in total · 19 days
  34. 5,388 ha Kazumba fire, 19 July 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,350 ha in total · 15 days
  35. 16,058 ha Kazumba fire, 17 July 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 15,952 ha in total · 25 days
  36. 8,054 ha Kazumba fire, 14 July 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,001 ha in total · 28 days
  37. 5,377 ha Kazumba fire, July 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,339 ha in total · 17 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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