Wildfires in Kongo-Central
Kongo-Central, Democratic Republic of the Congo: 20 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 14 territories since 2016, burning 168,639 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kimvula in August 2026, with 20,203 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).
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
- 168,639ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 3.1%
- 53,825 km²
- fires
- 20
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 8
- of 14
- Largest fire
- 20,203ha
- Kimvula · August 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 26 Low 34° · 45 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 35° · 40 % · 28 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 32° · 53 % · 26 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 30° · 67 % · 32 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 29° · 71 % · 25 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 31° · 61 % · 19 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 29° · 70 % · 23 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 30° · 74 % · 19 km/h
Burning now in the region
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Kimvula 56,799 ha · 15 %
- Luozi 44,284 ha · 6.1 %
- Tshela 20,050 ha · 6.0 %
- Mbanza-Ngungu 17,505 ha · 2.0 %
- Songololo 17,098 ha · 2.1 %
- Madimba 11,461 ha · 1.5 %
- Kasangulu 1,444 ha · 0.4 %
- Seke-Banza 0 ha · 0.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 8×Kimvula56,799 ha
- 4×Luozi44,284 ha
- 4×Madimba11,461 ha
- 3×Mbanza-Ngungu17,505 ha
- 3×Songololo17,098 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 20,203 haKimvulaAugust 2026 · 29 days of 30,908 ha in total
- 20,050 haTshelaSeptember 2026 · 10 days
- 17,969 haLuozi1 September 2026 · 22 days
- 14,717 haLuoziAugust 2026 · 18 days
- 12,390 haKimvulaJune 2026 · 13 days
- 12,010 haMbanza-Ngungu September 2026 · 21 days
- 9,596 haMbanza-Ngungu August 2026 · 31 days
- 7,279 haSongololoSeptember 2026 · 17 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Kongo-Central · 20
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 6,224 haLuozi20 September 2026 · 6 days
- 5,373 haLuozi14 September 2026 · 12 days
- 12,010 haMbanza-Ngungu September 2026 · 21 days
- 17,969 haLuozi1 September 2026 · 22 days
- 7,279 haSongololoSeptember 2026 · 17 days
- 20,050 haTshelaSeptember 2026 · 10 days
- 14,717 haLuoziAugust 2026 · 18 days
- 9,596 haMbanza-Ngungu August 2026 · 31 days
- 20,203 haKimvulaAugust 2026 · 29 days of 30,908 ha in total
- 12,390 haKimvulaJune 2026 · 13 days
- 5,557 haKimvulaMay 2026 · 4 days
- 5,987 haKimvula18 August 2025 · 33 days
- 3,281 haKimvula12 August 2025 · 39 days of 5,814 ha in total
- 5,718 haSongololoSeptember 2024 · 6 days
- 5,253 haMadimbaJune 2023 · 13 days
- 3,823 haKimvulaAugust 2020 · 24 days of 5,075 ha in total
- 5,505 haMadimbaJune 2020 · 11 days
- 3,425 haPopokabakaAugust 2018 · 19 days of 5,107 ha in total
- 2,676 haKimvulaAugust 2017 · 14 days of 5,279 ha in total
- 1,603 haKinshasaJuly 2017 · 12 days of 6,099 ha in total
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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