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Wildfires in Central Kasai

Central Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo: 92 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 7 territories since 2016, burning 841,555 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kazumba in 15 July 2020, with 92,287 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
841,555ha
Since 2016
Of the region
15%
57,871 km²
fires
92
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 7
Largest fire
92,287ha
Kazumba · 15 July 2020
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 13 Very low 30° · 49 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 29° · 48 % · 33 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 32° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 31° · 52 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 27° · 67 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 30° · 55 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 33° · 42 % · 46 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 33° · 90 % · 37 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. Kazumba 457,591 ha · 37 %
  2. Luiza 270,697 ha · 17 %
  3. Dimbelenge 68,842 ha · 5.9 %
  4. Demba 44,402 ha · 4.7 %
  5. Dibaya 23 ha · 0.0 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (5,000 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
202621224,664 Kazumba 48,664 ha
2025645,500 Kazumba 9,743 ha
2024435,101 Kazumba 13,019 ha
2023755,029 Kamonia 12,040 ha
2022438,243 Kazumba 14,073 ha
2021532,707 Demba 7,832 ha
202016213,712 Kazumba 92,287 ha
2019537,911 Luiza 17,413 ha
201829,406 Luiza 5,606 ha
201717113,368 Kazumba 16,058 ha
2016535,913 Luiza 8,974 ha

All fires in Central Kasai · 92

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/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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