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Wildfires in Luiza

Luiza, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 39 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 270,697 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% 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. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 49 % · 22 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 62 % · 23 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 67 % · 37 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 52 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 60 % · 28 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 66 % · 31 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 66 % · 44 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 52 % · 31 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

270,697
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
39
fires
15,947
km²

How many times has Luiza burned?

Luiza has burned 39 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Luiza fire, 14 August 2026, with 6,330 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 270,697 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 147,408 hectares, 9.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 10× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 8× 26
39
fires
10
years with fire
270,697
cumulative ha
147,408
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 Luiza

  1. 6,330 ha Luiza fire, 14 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 11,676 ha in total · 21 days
  2. 8,101 ha Luiza fire, 12 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,042 ha in total · 28 days
  3. 5,569 ha Luiza fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,532 ha in total · 29 days
  4. 5,985 ha Luiza fire, 1 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,944 ha in total · 33 days
  5. 8,123 ha Luiza fire, 20 June 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 9,750 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 14,928 ha Luiza fire, 14 June 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 14,816 ha in total · 23 days
  7. 5,717 ha Luiza fire, 6 June 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,853 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 11,824 ha Luiza fire, 5 June 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 11,741 ha in total · 20 days
  9. 9,332 ha Luiza fire, August 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 12,795 ha in total · 23 days
  10. 4,014 ha Luiza fire, August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,784 ha in total · 27 days
  11. 10,115 ha Luiza fire, June 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 10,040 ha in total · 16 days
  12. 3,964 ha Kapanga fire, June 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 5,029 ha in total · 17 days
  13. 8,207 ha Luiza fire, June 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,146 ha in total · 21 days
  14. 5,886 ha Luiza fire, 22 June 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,842 ha in total · 20 days
  15. 5,773 ha Luiza fire, 19 June 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,730 ha in total · 15 days
  16. 7,601 ha Luiza fire, 6 June 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,545 ha in total · 23 days
  17. 5,615 ha Luiza fire, 3 June 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,576 ha in total · 18 days
  18. 2,321 ha Kapanga fire, July 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 5,057 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 6,479 ha Luiza fire, June 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,434 ha in total · 17 days
  20. 9,702 ha Luiza fire, 2 July 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 9,629 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 3,843 ha Luiza fire, 1 July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,797 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 17,413 ha Luiza fire, 19 June 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 17,284 ha in total · 25 days
  23. 5,281 ha Luiza fire, 11 June 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,244 ha in total · 22 days
  24. 3,800 ha Luiza fire, July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,048 ha in total · 19 days
  25. 5,606 ha Luiza fire, June 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,565 ha in total · 11 days
  26. 3,075 ha Luiza fire, 30 July 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,089 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 26 ha Kapanga fire, July 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 6,686 ha in total · 16 days
  28. 5,201 ha Luiza fire, 6 July 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,161 ha in total · 12 days
  29. 3,867 ha Luiza fire, 2 July 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,129 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 2,886 ha Luiza fire, 1 July 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 14,581 ha in total · 9 days
  31. 13,890 ha Luiza fire, 1 July 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 13,785 ha in total · 28 days
  32. 6,147 ha Luiza fire, 24 June 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,101 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 9,124 ha Luiza fire, 24 June 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 9,057 ha in total · 13 days
  34. 8,119 ha Luiza fire, 18 June 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,062 ha in total · 17 days
  35. 6,295 ha Luiza fire, 14 June 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,282 ha in total · 21 days
  36. 7,697 ha Luiza fire, July 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,639 ha in total · 10 days
  37. 5,527 ha Luiza fire, 20 June 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,575 ha in total · 18 days
  38. 8,338 ha Luiza fire, 14 June 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,274 ha in total · 20 days
  39. 8,974 ha Luiza fire, 6 June 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,908 ha in total · 12 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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