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Wildfires in Lubefu

Lubefu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 79,878 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.8% 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. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 78 % · 29 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 44 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 52 % · 14 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 33° · 44 % · 33 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 33° · 51 % · 52 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 34° · 44 % · 52 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

79,878
hectares burned
5.8 %
of its area
12
fires
13,692
km²

How many times has Lubefu burned?

Lubefu has burned 12 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Lubefu fire, July 2026, with 6,164 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 79,878 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 50,240 hectares, 3.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 2× 26
12
fires
7
years with fire
79,878
cumulative ha
50,240
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 Lubefu

  1. 6,164 ha Lubefu fire, July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,122 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,680 ha Katako-Kombe fire, 10 June 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 44,017 ha in total · 34 days
  3. 7,325 ha Lubefu fire, 26 July 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,270 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 6,473 ha Lubefu fire, 26 July 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,429 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 500 ha Katako-Kombe fire, 5 July 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 9,986 ha in total · 25 days
  6. 7,015 ha Lubefu fire, July 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,968 ha in total · 22 days
  7. 22,426 ha Lubefu fire, 15 July 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 22,277 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 6,630 ha Lubefu fire, 9 July 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,772 ha in total · 23 days
  9. 6,476 ha Lubefu fire, 8 July 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,432 ha in total · 26 days
  10. 7,282 ha Lubefu fire, 7 July 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,227 ha in total · 23 days
  11. 7,114 ha Lubefu fire, July 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,067 ha in total · 24 days
  12. 793 ha Katako-Kombe fire, 21 June 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 27,727 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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