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Wildfires in Kimvula

Kimvula, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 56,799 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% 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 Very low 32° · 45 % · 23 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 65 % · 30 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 87 % · 21 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 69 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 62 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 66 % · 32 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 69 % · 22 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 60 % · 28 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

56,799
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
8
fires
3,863
km²

How many times has Kimvula burned?

Kimvula has burned 8 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2018, 2020, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kimvula fire, August 2026, with 20,203 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 56,799 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 41,915 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 3× 26
8
fires
5
years with fire
56,799
cumulative ha
41,915
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 Kimvula

  1. 20,203 ha Kimvula fire, August 2026 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 30,908 ha in total · 29 days
  2. 11,846 ha Kimvula fire, June 2026 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 12,310 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 5,557 ha Kimvula fire, May 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,524 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 5,987 ha Kimvula fire, 18 August 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 5,945 ha in total · 33 days
  5. 3,281 ha Kimvula fire, 12 August 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,814 ha in total · 39 days
  6. 3,823 ha Kimvula fire, August 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,075 ha in total · 24 days
  7. 3,425 ha Popokabaka fire, August 2018 0.9% of the municipality · 5,107 ha in total · 19 days
  8. 2,676 ha Kimvula fire, August 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,279 ha in total · 14 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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