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Wildfires in Lomela

Lomela, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 72,031 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.5% 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. Wed 4 Low 35° · 38 % · 20 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Low 35° · 38 % · 22 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 65 % · 18 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low 31° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 31° · 60 % · 29 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low 31° · 59 % · 29 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very low 28° · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Lomela: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

72,031
hectares burned
2.5 %
of its area
7
fires
28,877
km²

How many times has Lomela burned?

Lomela has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2020, 2022, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Lomela fire, July 2026, with 6,757 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 72,031 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 38,545 hectares, 1.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
7
fires
5
years with fire
72,031
cumulative ha
38,545
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 Lomela

  1. 6,757 ha Lomela fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,713 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 22,462 ha Lomela fire, June 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 22,310 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 7,451 ha Lomela fire, June 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,402 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 5,565 ha Lomela fire, 22 June 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,526 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 10,710 ha Lomela fire, 21 June 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 10,640 ha in total · 23 days
  6. 14,030 ha Lomela fire, June 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 13,937 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 5,056 ha Lodja fire, 6 June 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 6,247 ha in total · 13 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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