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Wildfires in Oshwe

Oshwe, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 21,543 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.5% 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. Sat 24 Very low 35° · 45 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 25° · 83 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 34° · 41 % · 17 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 35° · 44 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 72 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 77 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 73 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 68 % · 26 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

21,543
hectares burned
0.5 %
of its area
3
fires
41,887
km²

How many times has Oshwe burned?

Oshwe has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Oshwe fire, August 2026, with 4,951 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 21,543 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,015 hectares, 0.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
21,543
cumulative ha
18,015
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 Oshwe

  1. 4,951 ha Oshwe fire, August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,373 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 7,149 ha Oshwe fire, August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,178 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 9,443 ha Oshwe fire, August 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 9,667 ha in total · 17 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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