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🇦🇴 Angola: wildfires in September 2026

Unit: archived detection events, grouped by first-detection day and a roughly 11 km cell. One physical fire can span multiple records; hotspots can also be agricultural, industrial or urban. These counts are not a census of confirmed wildfires. The archive starts on August 3, 2026; the current month is incomplete.

Angola, September 2026: 1181 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 18 October at 06:47.

Busiest day: 10 September, with 103 ignitions detected. -13% compared with August 2026.

1181
archived events
0
still active
1
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
980
peak power (MW)
"In September 2026, kanari archived 1181 detection events in Angola, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 980 MW."
Source: kanari.io, NASA FIRMS, GOES and Meteosat MTG satellites plus AI-verified witness reports. Freely citable (CC BY 4.0).

Fire ignitions per day

012026-09-01: 29022026-09-02: 35032026-09-03: 13042026-09-04: 58052026-09-05: 38062026-09-06: 19072026-09-07: 26082026-09-08: 28092026-09-09: 87102026-09-10: 103112026-09-11: 58122026-09-12: 46132026-09-13: 30142026-09-14: 49152026-09-15: 35162026-09-16: 62172026-09-17: 70182026-09-18: 36192026-09-19: 45202026-09-20: 33212026-09-21: 20222026-09-22: 11232026-09-23: 40242026-09-24: 20252026-09-25: 28262026-09-26: 58272026-09-27: 17282026-09-28: 39292026-09-29: 40302026-09-30: 8

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Sacandica17 Sept, 12:0062980
Luacano17 Sept, 06:20104636
Cassamba15 Sept, 12:1374614
Quibala26 Sept, 14:0360558
Sessa16 Sept, 12:2381556
Luau8 Sept, 10:4095500
Capelongo18 Sept, 09:4061487
Massau10 Sept, 11:4020477
Luia5 Sept, 13:1022476
Lucusse11 Sept, 12:0325475

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Angola, September 2026: 1181 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-18.

Methodology: only significant fires are archived (corroborated by witnesses, or above detection and power thresholds); totals are not comparable to exhaustive official tallies. Full methodology and licence.

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