Wildfires in Maniema
Maniema, Democratic Republic of the Congo: 29 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 10 territories since 2016, burning 185,707 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kabambare in 9 August 2026, with 46,536 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).
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
- 185,707ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.4%
- 130,599 km²
- fires
- 29
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 5
- of 10
- Largest fire
- 46,536ha
- Kabambare · 9 August 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 4 Very low 33° · 43 % · 17 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 33° · 48 % · 25 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 29° · 70 % · 23 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 29° · 70 % · 20 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 29° · 70 % · 18 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 29° · 71 % · 28 km/h
- Tue 10 Very low 30° · 66 % · 34 km/h
- Wed 11 Very low 29° · 84 % · 26 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 46,536 haKabambare9 August 2026 · 49 days
- 10,431 haKasongoMay 2026 · 33 days
- 8,011 haKabambare15 August 2026 · 33 days
- 7,978 haKailo14 August 2026 · 20 days
- 7,042 haKabambareAugust 2025 · 16 days
- 6,795 haKasongo6 July 2018 · 19 days
- 6,789 haKasongoJune 2018 · 15 days
- 6,724 haKabambare21 August 2026 · 14 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 12 | 102,680 | Kabambare 46,536 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 7,042 | Kabambare 7,042 ha |
| 2024 | 2 | 7,273 | Kasongo 5,723 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 5,241 | Kabambare 5,241 ha |
| 2021 | 2 | 5,934 | Kasongo 5,736 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 5,989 | Kasongo 5,989 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 6,665 | Kabambare 6,665 ha |
| 2018 | 4 | 22,843 | Kasongo 6,795 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 5,252 | Kabambare 5,252 ha |
| 2016 | 4 | 16,787 | Kasongo 5,817 ha |
All fires in Maniema · 29
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 5,601 haKailo22 August 2026 · 4 days
- 3,977 haKalemie21 August 2026 · 22 days
- 6,724 haKabambare21 August 2026 · 14 days
- 25 haFizi18 August 2026 · 24 days
- 8,011 haKabambare15 August 2026 · 33 days
- 7,978 haKailo14 August 2026 · 20 days
- 46,536 haKabambare9 August 2026 · 49 days
- 2,954 haLubao20 June 2026 · 28 days
- 5,155 haKabambare18 June 2026 · 13 days
- 5,192 haKabambare15 June 2026 · 14 days
- 97 haKatako-Kombe9 June 2026 · 36 days
- 10,431 haKasongoMay 2026 · 33 days
- 7,042 haKabambareAugust 2025 · 16 days
- 5,723 haKasongoJune 2024 · 6 days
- 1,550 haKongolo21 June 2024 · 12 days
- 5,241 haKabambareJuly 2023 · 25 days
- 198 haKongolo23 July 2021 · 9 days
- 5,736 haKasongoJuly 2021 · 28 days
- 5,989 haKasongoJune 2020 · 13 days
- 6,665 haKabambareJune 2019 · 22 days
- 2,772 haKasongo7 July 2018 · 7 days
- 6,795 haKasongo6 July 2018 · 19 days
- 6,486 haKabambareJuly 2018 · 20 days
- 6,789 haKasongoJune 2018 · 15 days
- 5,252 haKabambareMay 2017 · 11 days
- 5,119 haKabambareAugust 2016 · 20 days
- 674 haLubao3 July 2016 · 10 days
- 5,177 haKasongo19 June 2016 · 7 days
- 5,817 haKasongo6 June 2016 · 14 days
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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