Wildfires in Kinshasa
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo: 3 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 1 territories since 2016, burning 15,646 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kinshasa in June 2026, with 10,984 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
- 15,646ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.4%
- 10,802 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 1
- Largest fire
- 10,984ha
- Kinshasa · June 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 2 Very low 31° · 58 % · 19 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 31° · 52 % · 19 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 31° · 57 % · 25 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 28° · 70 % · 25 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 29° · 64 % · 27 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 29° · 72 % · 27 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 30° · 63 % · 26 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 29° · 66 % · 27 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Kinshasa 15,646 ha · 1.5 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 3×Kinshasa15,646 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 10,984 haKinshasaJune 2026 · 16 days
- 4,539 haKinshasaJuly 2017 · 12 days of 6,099 ha in total
- 123 haMadimbaJune 2023 · 13 days of 5,342 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Kinshasa · 3
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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