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Wildfires in Lower Uele

Lower Uele, Democratic Republic of the Congo: 51 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 7 territories since 2016, burning 478,045 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ango in 6 January 2020, with 31,150 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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
478,045ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.2%
149,439 km²
fires
51
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 7
Largest fire
31,150ha
Ango · 6 January 2020
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 Very low 35° · 37 % · 37 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Low 37° · 25 % · 40 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Low 36° · 31 % · 46 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 36° · 36 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 51 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 30° · 57 % · 40 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 32° · 47 % · 30 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 31° · 59 % · 38 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. Ango 360,844 ha · 10 %
  2. Bondo 69,764 ha · 1.8 %
  3. Aketi 21,762 ha · 0.8 %
  4. Poko 18,912 ha · 0.9 %
  5. Bambesa 6,763 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
2026761,929 Bumba 15,689 ha
2025426,566 Ango 8,070 ha
2024553,943 Ango 28,572 ha
202218,062 Ango 8,062 ha
2021439,745 Bondo 28,885 ha
2020899,753 Ango 31,150 ha
2019320,813 Ango 8,934 ha
2018769,339 Ango 19,254 ha
2017541,790 Ango 12,440 ha
2016756,104 Ango 19,829 ha

All fires in Lower Uele · 51

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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