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Wildfires in Lubao

Lubao, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 53 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 333,735 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Mon 9 Moderate 35° · 36 % · 27 km/h
  2. Tue 10 Very low 32° · 46 % · 27 km/h
  3. Wed 11 Very low 30° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  4. Thu 12 Very low 28° · 68 % · 33 km/h
  5. Fri 13 Very low 28° · 66 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sat 14 Very low 28° · 65 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sun 15 Very low 31° · 56 % · 23 km/h
  8. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 62 % · 27 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 Lubao: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

333,735
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
53
fires
22,182
km²

How many times has Lubao burned?

Lubao has burned 53 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Lubao fire, 24 August 2026, with 1,304 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 8× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 12× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 12× 26
53
fires
11
years with fire
333,735
cumulative ha
24 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 Lubao

  1. 1,304 ha Lubao fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,001 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 8,046 ha Lubao fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,986 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 5,789 ha Lubao fire, 13 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,410 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 6,628 ha Lubao fire, 11 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,581 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 6,631 ha Lubao fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,591 ha in total · 26 days
  6. 6,390 ha Lubao fire, 2 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,341 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 3,423 ha Lubao fire, 27 June 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,163 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 10,765 ha Lubao fire, 20 June 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 12,897 ha in total · 28 days
  9. 16,311 ha Lubao fire, 20 June 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 17,638 ha in total · 15 days
  10. 7,060 ha Lubao fire, 17 June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,017 ha in total · 20 days
  11. 13,864 ha Lubao fire, 12 June 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 13,605 ha in total · 25 days
  12. 5,729 ha Lubao fire, 11 June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,694 ha in total · 20 days
  13. 1,199 ha Kabongo fire, September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,229 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 7,916 ha Lubao fire, 28 July 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,869 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 6,995 ha Lubao fire, 28 July 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,945 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 7,200 ha Lubao fire, June 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,294 ha in total · 12 days
  17. 5,262 ha Lubao fire, 17 August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,231 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 6,124 ha Lubao fire, 31 July 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,077 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 5,817 ha Lubao fire, 25 June 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,780 ha in total · 16 days
  20. 8,515 ha Lubao fire, 11 June 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,460 ha in total · 19 days
  21. 6,047 ha Lubao fire, July 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,011 ha in total · 13 days
  22. 5,222 ha Lubao fire, July 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,189 ha in total · 13 days
  23. 837 ha Kabalo fire, 5 July 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 8,158 ha in total · 14 days
  24. 6,471 ha Lubao fire, June 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,426 ha in total · 11 days
  25. 6,579 ha Lubao fire, July 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,550 ha in total · 16 days
  26. 7,813 ha Lubao fire, July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,766 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 8,267 ha Lubao fire, 14 July 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,208 ha in total · 13 days
  28. 5,621 ha Lubao fire, 4 July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,580 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 6,262 ha Lubao fire, August 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,219 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 1,721 ha Kabongo fire, 22 July 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 11,107 ha in total · 8 days
  31. 10,475 ha Lubao fire, 17 July 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 10,414 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 557 ha Lubao fire, 16 July 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,007 ha in total · 10 days
  33. 7,656 ha Lubao fire, 12 July 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,610 ha in total · 14 days
  34. 10,705 ha Lubao fire, 11 July 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 10,633 ha in total · 15 days
  35. 5,582 ha Lubao fire, 10 July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,545 ha in total · 10 days
  36. 8,901 ha Lubao fire, 6 July 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,846 ha in total · 7 days
  37. 9,746 ha Lubao fire, 5 July 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 9,684 ha in total · 22 days
  38. 7,794 ha Lubao fire, 4 July 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,745 ha in total · 19 days
  39. 6,359 ha Lubao fire, 3 July 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,322 ha in total · 10 days
  40. 5,369 ha Lubao fire, June 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,338 ha in total · 9 days
  41. 3,727 ha Lubao fire, July 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,513 ha in total · 3 days
  42. 206 ha Kongolo fire, 6 June 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 7,455 ha in total · 9 days
  43. 5,497 ha Lubao fire, June 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,459 ha in total · 4 days
  44. 1,630 ha Kongolo fire, 3 June 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 9,299 ha in total · 18 days
  45. 5,113 ha Lubao fire, May 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,133 ha in total · 15 days
  46. 5,750 ha Lubao fire, 19 July 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,716 ha in total · 4 days
  47. 4,280 ha Lubao fire, 13 July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,069 ha in total · 9 days
  48. 5,110 ha Lubao fire, 9 July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,080 ha in total · 4 days
  49. 6,617 ha Lubao fire, 3 July 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,248 ha in total · 10 days
  50. 5,474 ha Lubao fire, 2 July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,440 ha in total · 4 days
  51. 9,638 ha Lubao fire, 27 June 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 11,023 ha in total · 12 days
  52. 5,177 ha Lubao fire, 20 June 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,139 ha in total · 7 days
  53. 6,564 ha Lubao fire, 7 June 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,523 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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