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Wildfires in Sakania

Sakania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 30 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 202,609 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.5% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 25).

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 7 Very low 31° · 41 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 8 High 32° · 32 % · 37 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very high 32° · 28 % · 40 km/h
  4. Tue 10 High 32° · 30 % · 35 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 31° · 36 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 30° · 43 % · 35 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 28° · 64 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 28° · 68 % · 38 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 Sakania: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

202,609
hectares burned
9.5 %
of its area
30
fires
21,223
km²

How many times has Sakania burned?

Sakania has burned 30 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sakania fire, 8 September 2026, with 7,262 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 202,609 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 169,285 hectares, 8.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 12× 26
30
fires
9
years with fire
202,609
cumulative ha
169,285
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 Sakania

  1. 7,262 ha Sakania fire, 8 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,204 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 9,634 ha Sakania fire, 8 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 11,036 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 7,306 ha Sakania fire, 25 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,282 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 6,152 ha Sakania fire, 22 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,122 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 6,981 ha Sakania fire, 18 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,941 ha in total · 14 days
  6. 6,030 ha Sakania fire, 17 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,991 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 5,189 ha Sakania fire, 17 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,151 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 5,558 ha Sakania fire, 16 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,515 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 5,356 ha Sakania fire, 9 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,334 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 8,680 ha Sakania fire, 8 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,710 ha in total · 18 days
  11. 6,700 ha Sakania fire, 26 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,656 ha in total · 18 days
  12. 6,070 ha Sakania fire, 12 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,048 ha in total · 16 days
  13. 12,651 ha Sakania fire, 16 September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 12,578 ha in total · 12 days
  14. 10,247 ha Sakania fire, 3 September 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 10,176 ha in total · 15 days
  15. 6,996 ha Sakania fire, August 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,944 ha in total · 18 days
  16. 228 ha Kipushi fire, 9 August 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,343 ha in total · 20 days
  17. 5,739 ha Sakania fire, September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,716 ha in total · 19 days
  18. 6,082 ha Sakania fire, September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,051 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 5,782 ha Sakania fire, August 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,759 ha in total · 13 days
  20. 9,090 ha Sakania fire, September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 9,044 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 7,727 ha Sakania fire, August 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 10,704 ha in total · 12 days
  22. 4,520 ha Sakania fire, 7 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,206 ha in total · 22 days
  23. 5,796 ha Sakania fire, 3 August 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,844 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 9,163 ha Sakania fire, 11 September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 9,122 ha in total · 15 days
  25. 5,014 ha Sakania fire, 8 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,008 ha in total · 11 days
  26. 7,461 ha Sakania fire, 1 September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,449 ha in total · 10 days
  27. 5,759 ha Sakania fire, August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,734 ha in total · 21 days
  28. 5,153 ha Sakania fire, 19 September 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,132 ha in total · 16 days
  29. 6,206 ha Sakania fire, 14 September 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,155 ha in total · 16 days
  30. 8,076 ha Sakania fire, August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 8,037 ha in total · 16 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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