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Wildfires in Kwilu

Kwilu, Democratic Republic of the Congo: 248 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 9 territories since 2016, burning 2,992,441 hectares inside the region. The largest was Bulungu in 27 July 2026, with 307,010 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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
2,992,441ha
Since 2016
Of the region
37%
80,199 km²
fires
248
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 9
Largest fire
307,010ha
Bulungu · 27 July 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Low 37° · 31 % · 29 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 37° · 29 % · 23 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 36° · 45 % · 34 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 29° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 30° · 57 % · 38 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 32° · 48 % · 37 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 29° · 69 % · 34 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 97 % · 35 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. Masi-Manimba 1,123,570 ha · 78 %
  2. Idiofa 827,286 ha · 43 %
  3. Bulungu 770,335 ha · 58 %
  4. Gungu 144,250 ha · 9.7 %
  5. Bagata 123,305 ha · 7.1 %
  6. Mangai 3,666 ha · 2.4×
  7. Dibaya-Lubwe 28 ha · 2.6 %

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
2026611,416,932 Bulungu 307,010 ha
202527225,680 Idiofa 19,084 ha
202420156,803 Bulungu 27,431 ha
20231164,874 Masi-Manimba 11,578 ha
202214113,316 Masi-Manimba 17,609 ha
2021854,234 Masi-Manimba 14,414 ha
202035384,448 Bulungu 51,519 ha
201915130,704 Bulungu 15,859 ha
201815108,656 Masi-Manimba 13,053 ha
201715104,788 Masi-Manimba 13,174 ha
201627232,008 Bulungu 21,873 ha

All fires in Kwilu · 248

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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