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Wildfires in Kongolo

Kongolo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 54 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 308,945 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 24% 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. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 46 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 34° · 44 % · 35 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 61 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 60 % · 32 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 65 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 63 % · 20 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 65 % · 25 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

308,945
hectares burned
24 %
of its area
54
fires
13,142
km²

How many times has Kongolo burned?

Kongolo has burned 54 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kongolo fire, 14 August 2026, with 5,129 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 9× 17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 5× 21
  7.   22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 14× 26
54
fires
10
years with fire
308,945
cumulative ha
14 Aug 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 Kongolo

  1. 5,129 ha Kongolo fire, 14 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,098 ha in total · 30 days
  2. 1,667 ha Lubao fire, 13 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 7,410 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 5,162 ha Kongolo fire, 10 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,129 ha in total · 32 days
  4. 9,716 ha Kongolo fire, 10 August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 9,656 ha in total · 28 days
  5. 13,526 ha Kongolo fire, 2 August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 13,443 ha in total · 45 days
  6. 4,332 ha Kabalo fire, 27 July 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 6,085 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 5,009 ha Kongolo fire, 25 July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,409 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 9,270 ha Kongolo fire, 24 July 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 9,206 ha in total · 40 days
  9. 2,781 ha Lubao fire, 4 July 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 6,163 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 6,263 ha Kongolo fire, 23 June 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,800 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 1,438 ha Lubao fire, 20 June 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 17,638 ha in total · 15 days
  12. 5,240 ha Kongolo fire, 14 June 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 11,132 ha in total · 27 days
  13. 13,984 ha Kongolo fire, 13 June 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 13,889 ha in total · 28 days
  14. 12,434 ha Kongolo fire, 11 June 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 12,348 ha in total · 17 days
  15. 6,887 ha Kongolo fire, August 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,844 ha in total · 21 days
  16. 6,710 ha Kongolo fire, 29 July 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,668 ha in total · 14 days
  17. 10,264 ha Kongolo fire, 28 July 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 10,192 ha in total · 15 days
  18. 139 ha Lubao fire, June 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 7,294 ha in total · 12 days
  19. 6,084 ha Kongolo fire, 28 June 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,041 ha in total · 10 days
  20. 4,898 ha Kongolo fire, 21 June 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,407 ha in total · 12 days
  21. 5,767 ha Kongolo fire, 21 July 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,729 ha in total · 14 days
  22. 5,776 ha Kongolo fire, 20 July 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,740 ha in total · 18 days
  23. 3,196 ha Kongolo fire, 15 July 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,101 ha in total · 14 days
  24. 10,928 ha Kongolo fire, 12 July 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 10,860 ha in total · 39 days
  25. 4,538 ha Kongolo fire, 11 July 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,567 ha in total · 19 days
  26. 6,907 ha Kongolo fire, 23 July 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,063 ha in total · 9 days
  27. 4,678 ha Kabalo fire, 19 July 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 11,242 ha in total · 16 days
  28. 300 ha Kabalo fire, 17 July 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 6,945 ha in total · 15 days
  29. 7,776 ha Kongolo fire, 16 July 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 10,355 ha in total · 17 days
  30. 7,396 ha Kongolo fire, 15 July 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,351 ha in total · 29 days
  31. 5,541 ha Kongolo fire, 28 July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,502 ha in total · 7 days
  32. 1,808 ha Kongolo fire, 26 July 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 7,627 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 3,461 ha Kabalo fire, 22 July 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 7,860 ha in total · 15 days
  34. 5,992 ha Kongolo fire, 15 July 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,955 ha in total · 32 days
  35. 8,270 ha Kongolo fire, 15 July 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,213 ha in total · 8 days
  36. 5,972 ha Kongolo fire, 16 July 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,930 ha in total · 11 days
  37. 5,249 ha Kongolo fire, 13 July 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,215 ha in total · 8 days
  38. 6,013 ha Kongolo fire, June 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 10,046 ha in total · 12 days
  39. 4,482 ha Lubao fire, 16 July 2018 0.3% of the municipality · 5,007 ha in total · 10 days
  40. 2,933 ha Kasongo fire, 7 July 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 5,666 ha in total · 7 days
  41. 3,943 ha Kongolo fire, 4 July 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,090 ha in total · 10 days
  42. 11,446 ha Kongolo fire, 3 July 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 19,676 ha in total · 21 days
  43. 5,522 ha Kongolo fire, July 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,483 ha in total · 12 days
  44. 10,782 ha Kongolo fire, 11 June 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 10,707 ha in total · 21 days
  45. 7,295 ha Kongolo fire, 6 June 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,455 ha in total · 9 days
  46. 7,731 ha Kongolo fire, 3 June 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 9,299 ha in total · 18 days
  47. 143 ha Kabalo fire, 2 June 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 5,361 ha in total · 8 days
  48. 5,238 ha Kongolo fire, 30 May 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,201 ha in total · 13 days
  49. 4,972 ha Kongolo fire, 22 May 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,111 ha in total · 18 days
  50. 3,350 ha Kongolo fire, 20 May 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,177 ha in total · 14 days
  51. 52 ha Lubao fire, May 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 5,133 ha in total · 15 days
  52. 1,828 ha Lubao fire, 13 July 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 6,069 ha in total · 9 days
  53. 7,270 ha Kongolo fire, July 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,219 ha in total · 14 days
  54. 1,458 ha Kabalo fire, 1 July 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 6,793 ha in total · 10 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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