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Wildfires in Luilu

Luilu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 93,355 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 46 % · 36 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 42 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 34° · 33 % · 20 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 66 % · 46 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 76 % · 33 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 26° · 71 % · 35 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 64 % · 33 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 59 % · 35 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

93,355
hectares burned
8.8 %
of its area
15
fires
10,668
km²

How many times has Luilu burned?

Luilu has burned 15 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Luiza fire, 14 August 2026, with 5,430 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 93,355 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 49,094 hectares, 4.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 5× 26
15
fires
8
years with fire
93,355
cumulative ha
49,094
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 Luilu

  1. 5,430 ha Luiza fire, 14 August 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 11,676 ha in total · 21 days
  2. 5,558 ha Luilu fire, 14 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,520 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 8,649 ha Luilu fire, 13 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,586 ha in total · 24 days
  4. 6,378 ha Luilu fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,332 ha in total · 24 days
  5. 6,150 ha Luilu fire, June 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,159 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 5,490 ha Luilu fire, August 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,450 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 3,556 ha Luiza fire, August 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 12,795 ha in total · 23 days
  8. 2,819 ha Luiza fire, August 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 6,784 ha in total · 27 days
  9. 9,842 ha Luilu fire, July 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 9,771 ha in total · 24 days
  10. 8,824 ha Luilu fire, July 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,760 ha in total · 28 days
  11. 6,188 ha Luilu fire, August 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,144 ha in total · 14 days
  12. 30 ha Luiza fire, 14 June 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 6,282 ha in total · 21 days
  13. 5,042 ha Luilu fire, August 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,005 ha in total · 18 days
  14. 19,314 ha Luilu fire, July 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 19,175 ha in total · 29 days
  15. 85 ha Luiza fire, 20 June 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 5,575 ha in total · 18 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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