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Wildfires in Kenge

Kenge, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 124,233 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.7% 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 27 Low 36° · 36 % · 26 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 82 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 53 % · 19 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 66 % · 24 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 54 % · 23 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

124,233
hectares burned
6.7 %
of its area
23
fires
18,641
km²

How many times has Kenge burned?

Kenge has burned 23 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kenge fire, 24 August 2026, with 5,367 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 124,233 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 112,767 hectares, 6.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 13× 26
23
fires
7
years with fire
124,233
cumulative ha
112,767
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 Kenge

  1. 5,367 ha Kenge fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,335 ha in total · 30 days
  2. 955 ha Kenge fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,594 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 13,352 ha Kenge fire, 23 August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 13,270 ha in total · 30 days
  4. 5,418 ha Kenge fire, 23 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,616 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 7,174 ha Kenge fire, 20 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,131 ha in total · 19 days
  6. 1,250 ha Masi-Manimba fire, 17 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 8,611 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 5,063 ha Kenge fire, 16 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,033 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 16,201 ha Kenge fire, 12 August 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 16,094 ha in total · 27 days
  9. 5,269 ha Masi-Manimba fire, 12 August 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 5,286 ha in total · 27 days
  10. 2,015 ha Bagata fire, 5 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 6,463 ha in total · 28 days
  11. 11,557 ha Masi-Manimba fire, 27 July 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 115,183 ha in total · 49 days
  12. 35 ha Kinshasa fire, June 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 10,941 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 5,654 ha Kenge fire, June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,616 ha in total · 18 days
  14. 101 ha Masi-Manimba fire, 7 August 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 9,755 ha in total · 31 days
  15. 560 ha Masi-Manimba fire, 7 August 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 7,774 ha in total · 26 days
  16. 337 ha Masi-Manimba fire, August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 5,931 ha in total · 24 days
  17. 3,338 ha Feshi fire, August 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 7,949 ha in total · 15 days
  18. 5,255 ha Kenge fire, August 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,220 ha in total · 23 days
  19. 7,585 ha Kenge fire, 24 August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 11,179 ha in total · 13 days
  20. 5,493 ha Kenge fire, 12 August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,456 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 248 ha Masi-Manimba fire, 12 August 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 6,698 ha in total · 15 days
  22. 24 ha Masi-Manimba fire, 9 August 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 5,140 ha in total · 15 days
  23. 21,981 ha Kenge fire, June 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 21,824 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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