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Wildfires in Mongala

Mongala, Congo - Kinshasa: 31 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 3 territories since 2016, burning 571,771 hectares inside the region. The largest was Bumba in 22 February 2026, with 127,084 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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
571,771ha
Since 2016
Of the region
10%
56,473 km²
fires
31
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
2
of 3
Largest fire
127,084ha
Bumba · 22 February 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 33° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 62 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 55 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 64 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 56 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 74 % · 26 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 55 % · 19 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. Bumba 419,437 ha · 26 %
  2. Lisala 152,335 ha · 9.5 %

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
202617385,740 Bumba 127,084 ha
202411165,263 Bumba 41,723 ha
202115,726 Bumba 5,726 ha
202017,512 Bumba 7,512 ha
201817,531 Lisala 7,531 ha

All fires in Mongala · 31

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).