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Wildfires in Sandoa

Sandoa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 55 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 393,633 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Tue 27 Low 32° · 48 % · 23 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 65 % · 22 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 67 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 62 % · 36 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 58 % · 32 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 62 % · 30 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

393,633
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
55
fires
29,784
km²

How many times has Sandoa burned?

Sandoa has burned 55 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Sandoa fire, 14 August 2026, with 5,506 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 6× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 6× 22
  8. 6× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 15× 26
55
fires
11
years with fire
393,633
cumulative ha
14 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 Sandoa

  1. 5,506 ha Sandoa fire, 14 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,467 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 7,613 ha Sandoa fire, 7 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,551 ha in total · 26 days
  3. 10,519 ha Sandoa fire, 7 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 10,451 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 28,253 ha Sandoa fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 28,067 ha in total · 21 days
  5. 4,956 ha Sandoa fire, 4 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,621 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 3,627 ha Sandoa fire, 29 July 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,723 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 5,680 ha Sandoa fire, 27 July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,734 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 8,817 ha Sandoa fire, 24 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 9,005 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 16,477 ha Sandoa fire, 23 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 16,371 ha in total · 26 days
  10. 4,336 ha Sandoa fire, 21 July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 8,522 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 16,267 ha Sandoa fire, 19 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 17,320 ha in total · 14 days
  12. 8,445 ha Sandoa fire, 18 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 8,394 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 16,310 ha Sandoa fire, 17 July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 16,220 ha in total · 17 days
  14. 578 ha Kapanga fire, July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 6,048 ha in total · 18 days
  15. 6,769 ha Sandoa fire, June 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,735 ha in total · 30 days
  16. 6,623 ha Sandoa fire, September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,580 ha in total · 18 days
  17. 133 ha Kaniama fire, July 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,792 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 6,479 ha Sandoa fire, 31 July 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,791 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 5,790 ha Sandoa fire, 15 July 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,756 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 7,882 ha Sandoa fire, 24 June 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,839 ha in total · 13 days
  21. 7,204 ha Sandoa fire, 24 June 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,237 ha in total · 15 days
  22. 1,704 ha Kapanga fire, June 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 5,600 ha in total · 15 days
  23. 5,503 ha Sandoa fire, 4 August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,473 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 5,689 ha Sandoa fire, 2 August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,651 ha in total · 13 days
  25. 5,957 ha Sandoa fire, 1 August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,922 ha in total · 12 days
  26. 8,578 ha Sandoa fire, 1 August 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 8,660 ha in total · 9 days
  27. 7,394 ha Sandoa fire, 3 July 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,481 ha in total · 18 days
  28. 11,022 ha Sandoa fire, 3 July 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 10,967 ha in total · 16 days
  29. 7,257 ha Sandoa fire, August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,202 ha in total · 10 days
  30. 5,814 ha Sandoa fire, 26 July 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,979 ha in total · 6 days
  31. 389 ha Kapanga fire, 18 July 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 5,190 ha in total · 10 days
  32. 1,193 ha Kapanga fire, 4 July 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 5,569 ha in total · 12 days
  33. 12,225 ha Sandoa fire, 4 July 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 12,163 ha in total · 9 days
  34. 8,737 ha Sandoa fire, 1 July 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 8,682 ha in total · 20 days
  35. 2,313 ha Kamina fire, 25 July 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 6,180 ha in total · 8 days
  36. 10,075 ha Sandoa fire, July 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 10,016 ha in total · 25 days
  37. 699 ha Sandoa fire, July 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 8,952 ha in total · 7 days
  38. 5,263 ha Sandoa fire, June 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,230 ha in total · 8 days
  39. 386 ha Kapanga fire, August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 6,190 ha in total · 8 days
  40. 12,077 ha Kamina fire, 13 August 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 13,807 ha in total · 21 days
  41. 5,701 ha Sandoa fire, 25 July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,666 ha in total · 5 days
  42. 6,467 ha Sandoa fire, 18 July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,426 ha in total · 13 days
  43. 6,598 ha Sandoa fire, 14 July 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,558 ha in total · 14 days
  44. 8,125 ha Sandoa fire, 6 July 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 8,094 ha in total · 6 days
  45. 5,399 ha Sandoa fire, July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,359 ha in total · 7 days
  46. 80 ha Dilolo fire, July 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 5,136 ha in total · 11 days
  47. 6,766 ha Sandoa fire, 9 August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,727 ha in total · 9 days
  48. 9,634 ha Sandoa fire, 3 August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 9,575 ha in total · 12 days
  49. 5,076 ha Sandoa fire, 11 July 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,046 ha in total · 14 days
  50. 6,502 ha Sandoa fire, 11 July 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,670 ha in total · 13 days
  51. 5,689 ha Sandoa fire, August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,656 ha in total · 4 days
  52. 6,136 ha Sandoa fire, 31 July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,102 ha in total · 13 days
  53. 8,599 ha Sandoa fire, 13 July 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 8,547 ha in total · 7 days
  54. 15,546 ha Sandoa fire, 12 July 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 15,517 ha in total · 24 days
  55. 6,775 ha Sandoa fire, 4 July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,881 ha in total · 18 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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