Wildfires in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Situation over the last 30 days

1611 fires detected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the last 30 days, totalling 242,215 hectares of cumulative footprint. The latest satellite detection (NASA FIRMS) dates from September 6 at 04:42 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.

Other countries

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 375 m pixel counting whole 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.

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