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Wildfires in Uvira

Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2026: 8,124 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.3% 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. Mon 2 Very low 18° · 63 % · 28 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 17° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 19° · 66 % · 34 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 19° · 62 % · 33 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 19° · 61 % · 32 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 19° · 61 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 18° · 59 % · 35 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 18° · 62 % · 37 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

8,124
hectares burned
2.3 %
of its area
1
fires
3,556
km²

How many times has Uvira burned?

Uvira has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Uvira fire, August 2026, with 8,124 hectares inside the municipality.

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  11. 1× 26
1
fires
1
years with fire
8,124
cumulative ha
5 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 Uvira

  1. 8,124 ha Uvira fire, August 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 8,070 ha in total · 14 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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