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Wildfires in Kole

Kole, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 117,915 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.5% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Sun 25 Very low 28° · 65 % · 33 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 34° · 36 % · 20 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 35° · 37 % · 24 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 74 % · 22 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 64 % · 29 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 63 % · 29 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 75 % · 24 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

117,915
hectares burned
6.5 %
of its area
12
fires
18,023
km²

How many times has Kole burned?

Kole has burned 12 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Kole fire, August 2026, with 12,318 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 117,915 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 51,254 hectares, 2.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
12
fires
5
years with fire
117,915
cumulative ha
51,254
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 Kole

  1. 12,318 ha Kole fire, August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 12,228 ha in total · 21 days
  2. 1,697 ha Lodja fire, 18 July 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 5,564 ha in total · 19 days
  3. 13,521 ha Kole fire, July 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 13,421 ha in total · 29 days
  4. 871 ha Lodja fire, 8 July 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 10,081 ha in total · 21 days
  5. 5,329 ha Kole fire, 18 July 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,293 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 32,830 ha Kole fire, 6 July 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 32,588 ha in total · 36 days
  7. 24,702 ha Kole fire, July 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 24,520 ha in total · 28 days
  8. 4,464 ha Lodja fire, 29 June 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 27,599 ha in total · 29 days
  9. 8,157 ha Kole fire, July 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,097 ha in total · 22 days
  10. 738 ha Lodja fire, 29 June 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 9,585 ha in total · 31 days
  11. 10,342 ha Kole fire, June 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 10,266 ha in total · 32 days
  12. 2,948 ha Lodja fire, 21 June 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 30,512 ha in total · 32 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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