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Wildfires in Cunene

Cunene, Angola: 108 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 6 municipalities since 2016, burning 888,381 hectares inside the region. The largest was Cuanhama in August 2019, with 34,208 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 32).

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
888,381ha
Since 2016
Of the region
11%
77,764 km²
fires
108
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 6
Largest fire
34,208ha
Cuanhama · August 2019
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 25 Extreme 37° · 17 % · 31 km/h
  2. Mon 26 High 37° · 18 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very high 35° · 20 % · 27 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very high 37° · 13 % · 32 km/h
  5. Thu 29 High 36° · 23 % · 41 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Moderate 35° · 24 % · 41 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Moderate 33° · 36 % · 41 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Moderate 34° · 32 % · 40 km/h

Burning now in the region

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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. Cuanhama 323,862 ha · 16 %
  2. Cuvelai 308,811 ha · 20 %
  3. Namacunde 146,815 ha · 13 %
  4. Cahama 85,448 ha · 8.7 %
  5. Ombadja 15,434 ha · 1.3 %
  6. Curoca 8,011 ha · 1.0 %

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
2026881,097 Cuanhama 17,351 ha
202517145,554 Namacunde 31,289 ha
202417148,129 Cahama 16,386 ha
2023428,467 Cuanhama 7,811 ha
2022530,327 Cuanhama 11,669 ha
2021858,389 Cuvelai 14,415 ha
20201288,135 Cuanhama 17,561 ha
201921204,353 Cuanhama 34,208 ha
2018316,798 Cahama 5,857 ha
2017851,192 Namacunde 10,577 ha
2016535,942 Cuanhama 11,120 ha

All fires in Cunene · 108

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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