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Wildfires in Sankuru

Sankuru, Democratic Republic of the Congo: 189 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 8 territories since 2016, burning 3,247,010 hectares inside the region. The largest was Lodja in 2 June 2026, with 153,596 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
3,247,010ha
Since 2016
Of the region
30%
106,517 km²
fires
189
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 8
Largest fire
153,596ha
Lodja · 2 June 2026
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 Very low 33° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 27° · 75 % · 26 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 59 % · 39 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 66 % · 29 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 58 % · 21 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 64 % · 20 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. Lodja 2,109,337 ha · 1.7×
  2. Katako-Kombe 846,028 ha · 35 %
  3. Kole 117,915 ha · 6.5 %
  4. Lubefu 79,878 ha · 5.8 %
  5. Lomela 72,031 ha · 2.5 %
  6. Lusambo 21,820 ha · 1.9 %

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
202632953,703 Lodja 153,596 ha
202511130,168 Lodja 39,405 ha
202419410,777 Lodja 101,305 ha
202315344,673 Lodja 122,306 ha
202218264,779 Lodja 116,849 ha
202116121,135 Kole 13,521 ha
202026317,638 Lodja 43,055 ha
201910113,145 Lodja 31,119 ha
201817273,501 Lodja 86,380 ha
2017543,000 Katako-Kombe 9,801 ha
201620274,491 Lodja 44,295 ha

All fires in Sankuru · 189

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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