Wildfires in Benguela
Benguela, Angola: 3 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 10 municipalities since 2016, burning 25,410 hectares inside the region. The largest was Caimbambo in September 2025, with 9,275 hectares inside the region. 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.
- hectares burned
- 25,410ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.6%
- 39,769 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 10
- Largest fire
- 9,275ha
- Caimbambo · September 2025
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 30 Very low 29° · 63 % · 28 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 27° · 68 % · 35 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 30° · 62 % · 29 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 29° · 66 % · 30 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 28° · 69 % · 35 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 30° · 63 % · 35 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 30° · 56 % · 28 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 29° · 61 % · 35 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×Caimbambo17,912 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 9,275 haCaimbamboSeptember 2025 · 23 days
- 8,636 haCaimbamboSeptember 2026 · 35 days
- 7,498 haGandaAugust 2026 · 17 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Benguela · 3
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/U.S. Census Bureau (Public Domain). 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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