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Wildfires in Watsa

Watsa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 13,219 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 58 % · 24 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 45 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 47 % · 19 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 45 % · 25 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Low 32° · 45 % · 26 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Low 32° · 43 % · 22 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Low 32° · 43 % · 26 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Low 32° · 45 % · 40 km/h
  9. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 46 % · 41 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

13,219
hectares burned
0.8 %
of its area
3
fires
16,534
km²

How many times has Watsa burned?

Watsa has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2026. The most recent: Faradje fire, 24 February 2026, with 686 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
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  11. 2× 26
3
fires
2
years with fire
13,219
cumulative ha
24 Feb 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 Watsa

  1. 686 ha Faradje fire, 24 February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,353 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 5,955 ha Watsa fire, February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,914 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 6,578 ha Watsa fire, January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,534 ha in total · 30 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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