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Wildfires in Lisala

Lisala, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 152,335 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.5% 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 24 Very low 26° · 87 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 61 % · 16 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 66 % · 43 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 63 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 68 % · 32 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 65 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 79 % · 26 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

152,335
hectares burned
9.5 %
of its area
10
fires
16,100
km²

How many times has Lisala burned?

Lisala has burned 10 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Lisala fire, 23 February 2026, with 5,156 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 152,335 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 122,208 hectares, 7.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 4× 24
  10.   25
  11. 5× 26
10
fires
3
years with fire
152,335
cumulative ha
122,208
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 Lisala

  1. 5,156 ha Lisala fire, 23 February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,121 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 36,262 ha Lisala fire, 22 February 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 36,223 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 34,685 ha Lisala fire, 22 February 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 34,442 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 26,818 ha Lisala fire, 20 February 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 27,279 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 9,697 ha Lisala fire, 11 February 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 9,630 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 936 ha Businga fire, 9 March 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 5,695 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 789 ha Bumba fire, 6 March 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 39,578 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 19,645 ha Lisala fire, 4 March 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 19,507 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 10,815 ha Lisala fire, 3 March 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 10,745 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 7,531 ha Lisala fire, March 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,479 ha in total · 9 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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