Wildfires in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Situation over the last 30 days
6727 fires detected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the last 30 days, totalling 2,440,245 hectares of cumulative footprint. The latest satellite detection (NASA FIRMS) dates from October 22 at 08:56 PM.
The savannas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo burn every dry season, over huge areas but with fast, low-intensity grass fires, largely lit for farming and grazing. Detections are numerous; destructive forest fires are rare.
- Kongo central (CD)from September 23 at 01:58 AM to October 22 at 04:20 PM696,046 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 03:43 AM to October 22 at 08:56 PM106,446 ha
- Sud-Kivu (CD)from September 23 at 01:22 AM to October 21 at 01:36 PM39,036 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:13 PM to October 22 at 04:18 PM31,831 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 12:53 PM to October 22 at 04:16 PM30,027 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:13 PM to October 22 at 02:12 PM28,390 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 12:40 AM to October 22 at 02:10 PM20,637 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:13 PM to October 22 at 04:18 PM19,575 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 12:53 PM to October 22 at 04:16 PM18,148 ha
- Bandundu (CD)from September 23 at 02:18 AM to October 9 at 02:20 AM16,671 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:13 PM to October 22 at 04:18 PM16,112 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:24 AM to October 22 at 04:18 PM14,397 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:57 PM to October 22 at 02:10 PM13,741 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 12:53 PM to October 22 at 02:10 PM12,347 ha
- Maniema (CD)from September 23 at 01:15 PM to October 9 at 02:38 PM11,436 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:13 PM to October 22 at 02:12 PM11,223 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 02:00 PM to October 22 at 02:12 PM11,222 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:24 AM to October 22 at 04:18 PM10,771 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:13 PM to October 22 at 04:18 PM10,258 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:57 PM to October 22 at 04:18 PM9,829 ha
- Sud-Kivu (CD)from September 23 at 01:15 PM to October 9 at 02:00 PM9,169 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:13 PM to October 22 at 02:12 PM8,909 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:57 PM to October 22 at 02:10 PM8,812 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:58 AM to October 19 at 01:28 PM8,420 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:13 PM to October 22 at 04:18 PM8,180 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 26 at 01:02 PM to October 14 at 01:21 PM8,154 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:13 PM to October 18 at 01:25 PM8,125 ha
- Katanga (CD)from October 9 at 01:57 PM to October 22 at 02:12 PM6,704 ha
- Bandundu (CD)from September 23 at 02:18 AM to October 6 at 02:57 PM6,603 ha
- Maniema (CD)from September 24 at 12:58 PM to October 5 at 02:32 PM6,512 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:13 PM to October 22 at 02:10 PM6,470 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 24 at 02:17 PM to October 18 at 01:47 PM6,390 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:24 AM to October 6 at 01:51 PM6,217 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:57 PM to October 22 at 02:12 PM6,033 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 12:56 PM to October 18 at 01:28 PM5,489 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:13 PM to October 22 at 02:12 PM5,202 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:13 PM to October 19 at 02:12 PM4,953 ha
- Kinshasa (CD)from September 23 at 02:02 PM to October 8 at 03:16 PM4,798 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 02:01 AM to October 22 at 02:12 PM4,516 ha
- Katanga (CD)from September 23 at 01:57 PM to October 22 at 01:49 PM4,152 ha
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These figures come from satellite thermal detection and are not an official tally: only the emergency services of the country concerned are authoritative. The detected footprint overstates the area actually burnt, a pixel counting whole (375 m for VIIRS, 1 km for MODIS) when only an edge burns. A freshly detected fire may not yet carry a place name and will then not appear in this list, though it is already on the map.
Learn more: what a forest fire is and how satellites detect it
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