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Wildfires in Kwango

Kwango, Democratic Republic of the Congo: 246 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 5 territories since 2016, burning 2,066,502 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kasongo-Lunda in 5 August 2026, with 49,648 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
2,066,502ha
Since 2016
Of the region
23%
89,936 km²
fires
246
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 5
Largest fire
49,648ha
Kasongo-Lunda · 5 August 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 25 Very low 29° · 60 % · 26 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 49 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 46 % · 19 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 69 % · 30 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 26° · 75 % · 28 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 73 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 65 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 27° · 68 % · 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. Kasongo-Lunda 986,363 ha · 37 %
  2. Feshi 482,617 ha · 25 %
  3. Kahemba 404,565 ha · 20 %
  4. Kenge 124,233 ha · 6.7 %
  5. Popokabaka 68,725 ha · 11 %

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
20261011,066,821 Kasongo-Lunda 49,648 ha
202513113,672 Kasongo-Lunda 34,106 ha
202421174,875 Kasongo-Lunda 43,876 ha
2023522,569 Kahemba 5,958 ha
20221179,992 Feshi 13,556 ha
2021740,252 Feshi 6,712 ha
202019133,173 Kasongo-Lunda 18,692 ha
20191490,215 Kasongo-Lunda 14,504 ha
201818104,179 Kasongo-Lunda 11,868 ha
201718123,840 Feshi 13,759 ha
201619116,913 Kenge 21,981 ha

All fires in Kwango · 246

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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