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Wildfires in Mutshatsha

Mutshatsha, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 34,830 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.4% 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 11 Very low 29° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Very low 25° · 68 % · 21 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Very low 26° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 28° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Very low 29° · 55 % · 18 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Very low 29° · 55 % · 33 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Very low 25° · 73 % · 35 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low 27° · 71 % · 26 km/h
  9. Thu 19 Very low 28° · 83 % · 42 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 Mutshatsha: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

34,830
hectares burned
1.4 %
of its area
6
fires
24,110
km²

How many times has Mutshatsha burned?

Mutshatsha has burned 6 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Mutshatsha fire, 13 August 2026, with 5,664 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 34,830 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 31,221 hectares, 1.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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6
fires
2
years with fire
34,830
cumulative ha
31,221
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 Mutshatsha

  1. 5,664 ha Mutshatsha fire, 13 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,639 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 4,621 ha Mutshatsha fire, 13 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 9,062 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 300 ha Lubudi fire, August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 20,982 ha in total · 36 days
  4. 10,206 ha Mutshatsha fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 10,156 ha in total · 27 days
  5. 8,449 ha Mutshatsha fire, June 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,615 ha in total · 25 days
  6. 5,590 ha Mutshatsha fire, August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,565 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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