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Wildfires in Kipushi

Kipushi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 46,129 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.3% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 2 High 31° · 35 % · 31 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Low 31° · 39 % · 22 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Moderate 32° · 31 % · 30 km/h
  4. Thu 5 High 32° · 34 % · 32 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Low 32° · 42 % · 43 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 43 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 44 % · 31 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 31° · 47 % · 35 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

46,129
hectares burned
5.3 %
of its area
10
fires
8,662
km²

How many times has Kipushi burned?

Kipushi has burned 10 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2018, 2019, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kipushi fire, August 2026, with 6,385 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 46,129 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 35,840 hectares, 4.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 2× 26
10
fires
6
years with fire
46,129
cumulative ha
35,840
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 Kipushi

  1. 6,385 ha Kipushi fire, August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,358 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 6,834 ha Kipushi fire, July 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,785 ha in total · 26 days
  3. 5,155 ha Kipushi fire, 9 August 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,343 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 6,003 ha Kipushi fire, 5 August 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,972 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 5,382 ha Kipushi fire, July 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,354 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 5,382 ha Kipushi fire, August 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,393 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 5,164 ha Kipushi fire, August 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,131 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 3,031 ha Sakania fire, August 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 10,704 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 2,724 ha Sakania fire, 7 August 2018 0.3% of the municipality · 7,206 ha in total · 22 days
  10. 69 ha Sakania fire, 3 August 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 5,844 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).

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