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Wildfires in Lualaba

Lualaba, Democratic Republic of the Congo: 106 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 7 territories since 2016, burning 700,048 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sandoa in 5 August 2026, with 28,253 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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
700,048ha
Since 2016
Of the region
5.7%
123,537 km²
fires
106
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 7
Largest fire
28,253ha
Sandoa · 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. Wed 28 Moderate 30° · 45 % · 27 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 48 % · 22 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 29° · 59 % · 28 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 29° · 59 % · 19 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 54 % · 27 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. Sandoa 393,633 ha · 13 %
  2. Lubudi 102,004 ha · 5.5 %
  3. Kapanga 101,687 ha · 4.0 %
  4. Dilolo 67,896 ha · 2.7 %
  5. Mutshatsha 34,830 ha · 1.4 %

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
202632255,020 Sandoa 28,253 ha
2025418,371 Kapanga 9,254 ha
2024852,208 Kapanga 8,127 ha
2023851,538 Sandoa 11,022 ha
2022957,550 Sandoa 12,225 ha
2021425,499 Sandoa 10,075 ha
2020627,324 Lubudi 7,467 ha
20191163,719 Kamina 12,077 ha
2018628,077 Lubudi 5,697 ha
20171170,825 Luiza 11,775 ha
2016749,917 Sandoa 15,546 ha

All fires in Lualaba · 106

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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