Wildfires in Cankuzo
Cankuzo, Burundi: 19 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 5 communes since 2016, burning 24,553 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kigamba in June 2019, with 2,754 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).
Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
- hectares burned
- 24,553ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 13%
- 1,896 km²
- fires
- 19
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 5
- Largest fire
- 2,754ha
- Kigamba · June 2019
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 28 Very low 29° · 36 % · 34 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 26° · 44 % · 37 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 26° · 69 % · 35 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 25° · 72 % · 41 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 24° · 75 % · 23 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 22° · 84 % · 28 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 25° · 69 % · 27 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 25° · 64 % · 24 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 2,754 haKigambaJune 2019 · 10 days
- 2,388 haCankuzoJuly 2023 · 9 days
- 2,148 haBuhinyuzaAugust 2020 · 5 days
- 1,821 haKigambaJuly 2016 · 7 days
- 1,786 haKigambaJune 2018 · 5 days
- 1,614 haKigambaJuly 2020 · 4 days
- 1,384 haKigamba25 June 2016 · 8 days
- 1,360 haKigambaJuly 2022 · 2 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Cankuzo · 19
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 163 haGisuruAugust 2026 · 4 days of 1,462 ha in total
- 2,388 haCankuzoJuly 2023 · 9 days
- 1,101 haCankuzoJuly 2022 · 4 days
- 1,360 haKigambaJuly 2022 · 2 days
- 1,307 haKigambaJune 2022 · 2 days
- 1,017 haCankuzoJune 2022 · 7 days
- 1,036 haKigambaJune 2021 · 6 days
- 2,148 haBuhinyuzaAugust 2020 · 5 days
- 1,614 haKigambaJuly 2020 · 4 days
- 310 haCankuzoJune 2019 · 8 days of 1,162 ha in total
- 2,754 haKigambaJune 2019 · 10 days
- 6 haBweruJuly 2018 · 4 days of 1,223 ha in total
- 1,786 haKigambaJune 2018 · 5 days
- 1,109 haKigamba23 June 2017 · 2 days
- 1,017 haKigamba5 June 2017 · 9 days
- 1,821 haKigambaJuly 2016 · 7 days
- 1,384 haKigamba25 June 2016 · 8 days
- 1,190 haCankuzoJune 2016 · 6 days
- 1,042 haKigamba7 June 2016 · 3 days
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia (CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication). 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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