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Wildfires in Malanje

Malanje, Angola: 147 fires with a page have entered 14 of its 14 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,140,241 hectares inside the region. The largest was Cangandala in 17 July 2026, with 120,633 hectares inside the region. 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.

hectares burned
1,140,241ha
Since 2016
Of the region
13%
89,001 km²
fires
147
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
14
of 14
Largest fire
120,633ha
Cangandala · 17 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. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 58 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 49 % · 28 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 28° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 28° · 58 % · 24 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 29° · 62 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 29° · 55 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 27° · 89 % · 28 km/h

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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. Luquembo 265,472 ha · 26 %
  2. Cangandala 209,363 ha · 35 %
  3. Quirima 167,729 ha · 18 %
  4. Cambundi-Catembo 90,396 ha · 9.5 %
  5. Massango 81,527 ha · 10 %
  6. Quela 75,220 ha · 15 %
  7. Marimba 63,961 ha · 10 %
  8. Cunda-dia-Baze 60,863 ha · 18 %
  9. Cahombo 57,727 ha · 11 %
  10. Cacuso 35,479 ha · 5.7 %
  11. Calandula 16,640 ha · 2.2 %
  12. Malanje 10,159 ha · 4.4 %

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
202674708,084 Cangandala 120,633 ha
20251071,438 Quirima 18,477 ha
2024426,524 Cunda-dia-Baze 10,243 ha
2023956,641 Cangandala 10,436 ha
2022628,368 Quela 5,797 ha
2021312,773 Luquembo 6,665 ha
2020847,879 Cangandala 8,007 ha
20191159,678 Luquembo 9,374 ha
2018742,220 Cunda-dia-Baze 7,509 ha
2017848,566 Massango 14,296 ha
2016738,070 Cangandala 7,669 ha

All fires in Malanje · 147

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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