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Wildfires in Mitwaba

Mitwaba, Congo - Kinshasa, has had 37 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 262,126 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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. Fri 23 Low 30° · 36 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 30° · 28 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 30° · 28 % · 46 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 29° · 33 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 30° · 36 % · 43 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 45 % · 45 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 61 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 84 % · 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

262,126
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
37
fires
24,459
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Mitwaba

  1. 5,418 ha Mitwaba fire, 28 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,385 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 7,924 ha Mitwaba fire, 25 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,866 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 10,785 ha Mitwaba fire, 18 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 10,724 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 5,738 ha Mitwaba fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,689 ha in total · 28 days
  5. 83 ha Bukama fire, 29 June 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 8,351 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 4,165 ha Bukama fire, 21 June 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 6,206 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 30,365 ha Mitwaba fire, 19 June 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 30,195 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 6,261 ha Mitwaba fire, 11 June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,217 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 6,837 ha Mitwaba fire, 11 June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,795 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 7,007 ha Mitwaba fire, 6 June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,949 ha in total · 16 days
  11. 5,315 ha Mitwaba fire, September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,272 ha in total · 16 days
  12. 15,516 ha Mitwaba fire, July 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 15,427 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 9,326 ha Mitwaba fire, 30 June 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 9,275 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 7,087 ha Mitwaba fire, 28 June 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,044 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 6,387 ha Mitwaba fire, 20 July 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,350 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 6,830 ha Mitwaba fire, 16 July 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,139 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 7,694 ha Mitwaba fire, June 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,968 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 5,251 ha Mitwaba fire, September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,212 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 6,226 ha Mitwaba fire, July 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,189 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 5,039 ha Mitwaba fire, 15 July 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,009 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 5,378 ha Mitwaba fire, 13 July 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,347 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 5,197 ha Mitwaba fire, May 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,165 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 7,396 ha Mitwaba fire, 20 July 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,351 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 6,629 ha Mitwaba fire, 8 July 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,590 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 5,683 ha Mitwaba fire, June 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,650 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 5,501 ha Mitwaba fire, August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,460 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 5,691 ha Mitwaba fire, 15 July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,658 ha in total · 9 days
  28. 7,033 ha Mitwaba fire, 5 July 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,987 ha in total · 12 days
  29. 16,955 ha Mitwaba fire, June 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 16,851 ha in total · 12 days
  30. 8,495 ha Mitwaba fire, September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,433 ha in total · 6 days
  31. 6,795 ha Mitwaba fire, 30 July 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,748 ha in total · 8 days
  32. 8,039 ha Mitwaba fire, 18 July 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,980 ha in total · 8 days
  33. 133 ha Bukama fire, July 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 6,573 ha in total · 14 days
  34. 2,912 ha Mitwaba fire, 2 July 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,135 ha in total · 4 days
  35. 5,391 ha Mitwaba fire, 29 June 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,357 ha in total · 8 days
  36. 5,217 ha Mitwaba fire, 22 June 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,187 ha in total · 6 days
  37. 429 ha Bukama fire, June 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 9,170 ha in total · 13 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).