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Wildfires in Rungu

Rungu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2016: 7,156 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.8% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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. Fri 13 Low 29° · 46 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Low 32° · 36 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Moderate 34° · 33 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Moderate 36° · 30 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Moderate 34° · 40 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 31° · 54 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 31° · 54 % · 27 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 33° · 44 % · 27 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Rungu: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

7,156
hectares burned
0.8 %
of its area
1
fires
9,390
km²

How many times has Rungu burned?

Rungu has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2016. The most recent: Rungu fire, January 2016, with 7,156 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
7,156
cumulative ha
21 Jan 2016
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 Rungu

  1. 7,156 ha Rungu fire, January 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 7,107 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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