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Wildfires in Kisangani

Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2026: 1,853 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.8% 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.

These figures leave out one page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 12 Very low 28° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Low 35° · 31 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Moderate 37° · 28 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Moderate 37° · 29 % · 32 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Very low 33° · 45 % · 30 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Very low 32° · 57 % · 30 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Very low 31° · 60 % · 20 km/h
  8. Thu 19 Very low 33° · 54 % · 21 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Kisangani: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

1,853
hectares burned
0.8 %
of its area
1
fires
2,209
km²

How many times has Kisangani burned?

Kisangani has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Bafwasende fire, March 2026, with 1,853 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
1,853
cumulative ha
5 Mar 2026
most recent

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 Kisangani

  1. 1,853 ha Bafwasende fire, March 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 8,960 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 929 ha Bafwasende fire, 12 February 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 15,670 ha in total · 18 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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