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Wildfires in Mweka

Mweka, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 103,958 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Tue 27 Low 33° · 43 % · 25 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 66 % · 18 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 70 % · 20 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 80 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 66 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 74 % · 27 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 64 % · 30 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 65 % · 34 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

103,958
hectares burned
5.3 %
of its area
7
fires
19,792
km²

How many times has Mweka burned?

Mweka has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2020, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Mweka fire, 23 August 2026, with 9,260 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 103,958 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 64,296 hectares, 3.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
7
fires
4
years with fire
103,958
cumulative ha
64,296
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 Mweka

  1. 9,260 ha Mweka fire, 23 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 9,191 ha in total · 21 days
  2. 6,922 ha Mweka fire, 13 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,870 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 34,943 ha Mweka fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 34,691 ha in total · 28 days
  4. 6,071 ha Mweka fire, 27 July 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,027 ha in total · 25 days
  5. 26,034 ha Mweka fire, 17 July 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 25,842 ha in total · 39 days
  6. 6,286 ha Mweka fire, July 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,241 ha in total · 30 days
  7. 14,443 ha Mweka fire, July 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 14,337 ha in total · 31 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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