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🇦🇴 Angola: wildfires in October 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, October 2026: 915 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 15 November at 09:26.

Busiest day: 3 October, with 69 ignitions detected. -23% compared with September 2026.

915
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
574
peak power (MW)
"In October 2026, kanari archived 915 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: 574 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

012026-10-01: 29022026-10-02: 65032026-10-03: 69042026-10-04: 41052026-10-05: 60062026-10-06: 9072026-10-07: 36082026-10-08: 65092026-10-09: 7102026-10-10: 19112026-10-11: 26122026-10-12: 15132026-10-13: 26142026-10-14: 28152026-10-15: 34162026-10-16: 21172026-10-17: 28182026-10-18: 35192026-10-19: 20202026-10-20: 49212026-10-21: 22222026-10-22: 38232026-10-23: 29242026-10-24: 36252026-10-25: 15262026-10-26: 30272026-10-27: 13282026-10-28: 14292026-10-29: 3302026-10-30: 20312026-10-31: 13

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Lumbala Nguimbo16 Oct, 11:5351574
Mangando2 Oct, 12:0364508
Calandula5 Oct, 11:35156489
Chiúme2 Oct, 11:3088449
Mussuma Mitete3 Oct, 09:1327440
Xamavera8 Oct, 08:48131417
Cunjamba15 Oct, 12:5327413
Mulondo22 Oct, 10:4944365
Calai23 Oct, 12:0257357
Chibemba8 Oct, 14:1051344

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Angola, October 2026: 915 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-11-15.

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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