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Wildfires in Luebo

Luebo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 41,560 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 7 Very low 30° · 53 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Very low 33° · 41 % · 18 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 32° · 47 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 31° · 55 % · 23 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 25° · 71 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 26° · 71 % · 32 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 28° · 74 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 30° · 62 % · 23 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 Luebo: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

41,560
hectares burned
5.1 %
of its area
7
fires
8,222
km²

How many times has Luebo burned?

Luebo has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2020, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Luebo fire, 26 July 2024, with 8,827 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 41,560 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 32,594 hectares, 4.0 % 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.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
4
years with fire
41,560
cumulative ha
32,594
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 Luebo

  1. 8,827 ha Luebo fire, 26 July 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 8,767 ha in total · 25 days
  2. 5,375 ha Luebo fire, 26 July 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,340 ha in total · 26 days
  3. 7,400 ha Luebo fire, 23 July 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 7,348 ha in total · 28 days
  4. 7,007 ha Luebo fire, 2 August 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,959 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 6,490 ha Luebo fire, 27 July 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,443 ha in total · 33 days
  6. 918 ha Kazumba fire, 17 July 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 5,468 ha in total · 27 days
  7. 5,544 ha Luebo fire, July 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,506 ha in total · 22 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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