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Wildfires in Mangai

Mangai, Democratic Republic of the Congo: 4 fires since 2016 burned 3,666 hectares inside its boundaries, 2.4 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 2 Very low 30° · 47 % · 17 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Low 36° · 34 % · 23 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 36° · 41 % · 22 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 31° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 29° · 66 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 32° · 65 % · 27 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 32° · 59 % · 20 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

3,666
hectares burned
2.4×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
4
fires
15
km²

How many times has Mangai burned?

Mangai has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Idiofa fire, 13 August 2026, with 1,568 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,666 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,358 hectares, 88 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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4
fires
4
years with fire
3,666
cumulative ha
1,358
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 Mangai

  1. 1,568 ha Idiofa fire, 13 August 2026 100% of the municipality · 20,145 ha in total · 34 days
  2. 930 ha Idiofa fire, 6 August 2025 60% of the municipality · 18,973 ha in total · 36 days
  3. 210 ha Idiofa fire, August 2017 14% of the municipality · 6,801 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 958 ha Idiofa fire, August 2016 62% of the municipality · 6,907 ha in total · 9 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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