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Wildfires in Kasaï

Kasaï, Democratic Republic of the Congo: 86 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 6 territories since 2016, burning 858,677 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kazumba in 15 July 2020, with 57,034 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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
858,677ha
Since 2016
Of the region
8.9%
96,791 km²
fires
86
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 6
Largest fire
57,034ha
Kazumba · 15 July 2020
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 31 Very low 33° · 45 % · 17 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 79 % · 34 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 65 % · 18 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 57 % · 19 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 63 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 54 % · 38 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 31° · 62 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 58 % · 22 km/h

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. Kamonia 702,480 ha · 26 %
  2. Mweka 103,958 ha · 5.3 %
  3. Luebo 41,560 ha · 5.1 %
  4. Ilebo 10,679 ha · 0.7 %

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
202621252,700 Kamonia 44,259 ha
2025845,092 Kamonia 7,068 ha
2024896,184 Kazumba 29,357 ha
20238109,183 Kamonia 47,016 ha
20221174,020 Kamonia 14,814 ha
2021323,350 Kamonia 9,769 ha
20209127,236 Kazumba 57,034 ha
2019650,339 Kamonia 14,866 ha
2018321,750 Kamonia 9,470 ha
2017528,256 Kamonia 8,043 ha
2016430,567 Mweka 14,443 ha

All fires in Kasaï · 86

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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