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🇨🇩 DR Congo: 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.

DR Congo, September 2026: 552 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 18 October at 10:06.

Busiest day: 10 September, with 45 ignitions detected. Longest fire: Goma, tracked for 7 h. +18% compared with August 2026.

552
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
731
peak power (MW)
"In September 2026, kanari archived 552 detection events in DR Congo, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 731 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: 10022026-09-02: 16032026-09-03: 7042026-09-04: 29052026-09-05: 14062026-09-06: 7072026-09-07: 18082026-09-08: 12092026-09-09: 34102026-09-10: 45112026-09-11: 18122026-09-12: 18132026-09-13: 18142026-09-14: 21152026-09-15: 35162026-09-16: 15172026-09-17: 30182026-09-18: 28192026-09-19: 20202026-09-20: 12212026-09-21: 17222026-09-22: 21232026-09-23: 20242026-09-24: 8252026-09-25: 8262026-09-26: 11272026-09-27: 4282026-09-28: 26292026-09-29: 28302026-09-30: 2

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Sake16 Sept, 14:3659731
Sake27 Sept, 16:1018571
Kabalo4 Sept, 13:3541546
Kanyama29 Sept, 10:0024534
Kamina18 Sept, 09:20105507
Kanyama29 Sept, 10:1021467
Lubao17 Sept, 12:2014454
Nyunzu8 Sept, 10:5065451
Kanyama28 Sept, 11:0371428
Kamina23 Sept, 11:0058399

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, DR Congo, September 2026: 552 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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