Skip to content
worldfires
en
CD · Democratic Republic of the Congo

Wildfires in Upper Uele

Upper Uele, Democratic Republic of the Congo: 97 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 8 territories since 2016, burning 1,544,785 hectares inside the region. The largest was Dungu in 22 January 2020, with 124,048 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
1,544,785ha
Since 2016
Of the region
17%
92,073 km²
fires
97
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 8
Largest fire
124,048ha
Dungu · 22 January 2020
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 66 % · 27 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 48 % · 35 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 48 % · 34 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 59 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 33° · 45 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 50 % · 26 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 50 % · 29 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Dungu 1,322,259 ha · 39 %
  2. Faradje 177,661 ha · 14 %
  3. Niangara 18,098 ha · 1.9 %
  4. Watsa 13,219 ha · 0.8 %
  5. Rungu 7,156 ha · 0.8 %
  6. Wamba 6,393 ha · 0.6 %

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
202610231,566 Dungu 58,473 ha
20256120,189 Dungu 65,067 ha
2024530,258 Dungu 6,966 ha
2023246,477 Dungu 35,749 ha
2022425,828 Dungu 7,511 ha
202115169,093 Dungu 31,127 ha
20209180,986 Dungu 124,048 ha
20198180,129 Faradje 77,935 ha
201810129,058 Dungu 43,865 ha
201712225,480 Dungu 59,058 ha
201616205,721 Dungu 38,931 ha

All fires in Upper Uele · 97

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).

Tell me what burns here

New fires in this area by RSS: paste the link into your reader, no email needed.

Follow by RSS