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Wildfires in Pweto

Pweto, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 29,499 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.2% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 22).

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 High 29° · 47 % · 40 km/h
  2. Thu 29 High 29° · 54 % · 33 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 25° · 72 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 26° · 70 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 26° · 73 % · 31 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 27° · 69 % · 22 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 67 % · 31 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

29,499
hectares burned
1.2 %
of its area
6
fires
24,689
km²

How many times has Pweto burned?

Pweto has burned 6 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Kasenga fire, 17 July 2026, with 92 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
6
fires
2
years with fire
29,499
cumulative ha
17 Jul 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 Pweto

  1. 92 ha Kasenga fire, 17 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 42,443 ha in total · 49 days
  2. 8,804 ha Pweto fire, July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,758 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 3,733 ha Pweto fire, 18 June 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,629 ha in total · 22 days
  4. 5,625 ha Pweto fire, 16 June 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,596 ha in total · 25 days
  5. 5,093 ha Pweto fire, July 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,068 ha in total · 21 days
  6. 6,152 ha Pweto fire, May 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,124 ha in total · 23 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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