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Wildfires in Bié

Bié, Angola: 78 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 9 municipalities since 2016, burning 696,334 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mussende in 19 July 2026, with 34,015 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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
696,334ha
Since 2016
Of the region
9.6%
72,467 km²
fires
78
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 9
Largest fire
34,015ha
Mussende · 19 July 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Moderate 31° · 33 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 32° · 33 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 33° · 24 % · 40 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 32° · 32 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 30 % · 52 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 32 % · 53 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 58 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 27° · 59 % · 34 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Chitembo 190,686 ha · 10.0 %
  2. Andulo 166,179 ha · 16 %
  3. Cuemba 141,646 ha · 11 %
  4. N'harea 109,332 ha · 16 %
  5. Camacupa 65,572 ha · 7.2 %
  6. Cuito 17,544 ha · 3.7 %
  7. Chinguar 2,867 ha · 1.0 %
  8. Catabola 2,508 ha · 0.9 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202645422,919 Mussende 34,015 ha
202522205,650 Chitembo 26,012 ha
2024538,748 Chitembo 9,521 ha
2022315,780 Chitembo 8,128 ha
201912,990 Cuito Cuanavale 2,990 ha
2017210,248 Chitembo 5,813 ha

All fires in Bié · 78

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).