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Wildfires in Opala

Opala, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 59,346 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. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 50 % · 16 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 76 % · 23 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 65 % · 22 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 65 % · 16 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 62 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 67 % · 19 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 64 % · 21 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

59,346
hectares burned
2.2 %
of its area
10
fires
26,626
km²

How many times has Opala burned?

Opala has burned 10 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Opala fire, August 2026, with 5,051 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. 10× 26
10
fires
1
years with fire
59,346
cumulative ha
22 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 Opala

  1. 5,051 ha Opala fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,018 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 5,940 ha Isangi fire, August 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 10,979 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 7,356 ha Opala fire, 19 June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,307 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 5,704 ha Opala fire, 18 June 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,666 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 5,882 ha Opala fire, May 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,845 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 5,281 ha Opala fire, 17 April 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,246 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 5,652 ha Opala fire, 17 April 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,615 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 5,564 ha Opala fire, March 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,996 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 6,364 ha Opala fire, 23 February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,395 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 6,551 ha Opala fire, 22 February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 9,667 ha in total · 8 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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