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Wildfires in Mwenga

Mwenga, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 24,347 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.2% 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 23° · 83 % · 26 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 90 % · 29 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 72 % · 29 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 60 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 60 % · 26 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 23° · 79 % · 23 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 25° · 66 % · 31 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 27° · 61 % · 30 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

24,347
hectares burned
2.2 %
of its area
3
fires
11,130
km²

How many times has Mwenga burned?

Mwenga has burned 3 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Mwenga fire, 26 August 2026, with 4,814 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
3
fires
1
years with fire
24,347
cumulative ha
26 Aug 2026
most recent

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 Mwenga

  1. 4,814 ha Mwenga fire, 26 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,807 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 18,981 ha Mwenga fire, 7 August 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 18,855 ha in total · 28 days
  3. 552 ha Shabunda fire, 6 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,794 ha in total · 24 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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