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Wildfires in Mozambique

2,578 fires over 3,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 19,917,048 hectares burned across 119 districts.

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.

These figures leave out 5 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Mozambique, at this point in the year: 8,569,249 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 15,853,687.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–202516,755,500 ha

Worst year2019 19,412,542 ha

With a page here2,578 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	28,016	8,594,965	GWIS
2025	31,858	11,515,537	GWIS
2024	37,474	14,015,364	GWIS
2023	47,968	16,638,770	GWIS
2022	43,461	16,452,001	GWIS
2021	51,807	18,530,560	GWIS
2020	48,194	17,314,886	GWIS
2019	53,516	19,412,542	GWIS
2018	55,562	18,786,702	GWIS
2017	47,531	17,526,860	GWIS
2016	46,607	17,361,779	GWIS
2015	55,101	19,729,017	GWIS
2014	53,877	20,389,876	GWIS
2013	50,891	19,560,361	GWIS
2012	52,575	19,298,524	GWIS

National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.

Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

	Jan	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026		7k	91k	3,217k	1,064k	1,171k			5,550,479	Mocuba 505,288 ha
2025		4k		436k	1,785k	349k	63k		2,636,745	Lugela 188,911 ha
2024			34k	77k	860k	72k	3k		1,046,469	Mocuba 73,182 ha
2023			26k	64k	476k	207k	13k	3k	790,089	Mocuba 40,394 ha
2022			4k	35k	923k	714k	29k		1,704,341	Lugela 173,378 ha
2021			6k	127k	618k	282k	177k	41k	1,252,098	Mecula 28,669 ha
2020			49k	250k	910k	161k	49k		1,418,879	Lugela 111,849 ha
2019		6k	53k	210k	499k	518k	20k		1,306,432	Muanza 117,404 ha
2018	4k	3k	42k	153k	1,061k	180k	8k		1,452,117	Mocuba 116,289 ha
2017		4k	8k	80k	569k	558k	21k	4k	1,243,782	Ribaué 53,154 ha
2016			46k	184k	1,089k	187k	10k		1,515,617	Derre 116,560 ha