Burned area
satellite only7,182ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 3 Sept 2026 – 26 Sept 2026
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MZ · Mozambique · –
Majune fire, 3 September 2026 Majune, Ngauma, Chimbonila
Out · last detection 26 Sept 2026, 11:38 UTC
The fire started on 3 September 2026 in Majune, Mozambique, and satellites saw it burning for 24 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,182 hectares from heat detections, spread across 3 municipalities.
Number 132 in Mozambique in 2026, of 562.
GWIS near-real-time perimeter, from the layer that changed in August 2025: this fire is not compared with fires from earlier years, because since then the GWIS layer gives more and larger perimeters.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only24days
3 Sept 2026 to 26 Sept 2026: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 26 Sept 2026, 11:38 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only3 Sept 2026
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 3 Sept 2026
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only180
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 102 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 3 Sept 2026 – 26 Sept 2026
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only596MW
Total radiative power on 16 September 2026; hotspots that day: 44.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 16 Sept 2026
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model36.8FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 20.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 3 Sept 2026, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model29.4°C · 34% RH
High of 29.4 °C and minimum humidity of 34% on 4 September 2026; gusts of 44 km/h on 8 September 2026.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 3 Sept 2026 – 26 Sept 2026
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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logLast day with fire: 21 September 2026 → 26 September 2026.
What was saved on 25 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 7,182 ha
- Dates
- 3 Sept 2026 – 26 Sept 2026
- Name
- Ngauma
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/majune-2026-09?v=2026-10-25A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
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CSV for this fire majune-2026-09.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-03 | 0 | 0 | 28.2 | 16.4 | 28 | 13.9 | 37.1 | 0 | 36.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-04 | 0 | 0 | 29.4 | 16.9 | 34 | 15 | 38.5 | 0 | 37.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-05 | 0 | 0 | 27.9 | 18.6 | 40 | 13.1 | 34.9 | 0 | 37.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-06 | 10 | 79 | 26.7 | 16.7 | 46 | 14.2 | 37.4 | 0 | 33 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-07 | 1 | 6 | 27.4 | 17.9 | 34 | 13.7 | 34.2 | 0 | 30.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-08 | 1 | 10 | 23.6 | 16.7 | 49 | 17.7 | 43.6 | 0 | 32 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-09 | 0 | 0 | 23.8 | 16.7 | 46 | 15.7 | 35.6 | 0 | 25 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-10 | 6 | 45 | 25.9 | 17.6 | 49 | 11.6 | 28.8 | 0.9 | 20.9 | moderado | 1 |
| 2026-09-11 | 2 | 34 | 26.9 | 18 | 45 | 11.2 | 31.3 | 0.2 | 24.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-12 | 10 | 84 | 27.3 | 18.2 | 41 | 12.3 | 33.5 | 0.1 | 28.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-13 | 23 | 210 | 27.9 | 17.7 | 38 | 13.4 | 36.4 | 0 | 32.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-14 | 10 | 44 | 28.3 | 18.9 | 32 | 12.9 | 35.3 | 0 | 36.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-15 | 39 | 496 | 29.2 | 16.3 | 30 | 14.3 | 39.2 | 0 | 42.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-16 | 44 | 596 | 27.9 | 17 | 27 | 13 | 37.8 | 0 | 43.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-17 | 4 | 25 | 28.1 | 17 | 34 | 14.3 | 38.9 | 0.2 | 44.1 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-18 | 12 | 79 | 28.1 | 17.8 | 40 | 13.1 | 42.1 | 0.1 | 38 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-19 | 2 | 13 | 27.7 | 18.3 | 43 | 13.3 | 39.6 | 0 | 35.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-20 | 2 | 13 | 27.2 | 18.1 | 39 | 14.1 | 38.2 | 0 | 34.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-21 | 3 | 9 | 29.2 | 18.5 | 40 | 13.6 | 36.7 | 0 | 35.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-22 | 0 | 0 | 26.9 | 18.5 | 46 | 13.4 | 35.3 | 0.8 | 27.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-23 | 0 | 0 | 25.6 | 18.9 | 61 | 9 | 25.9 | 3.5 | 4.6 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2026-09-24 | 1 | 3 | 28.7 | 18.7 | 43 | 11.3 | 29.2 | 0.8 | 11 | bajo | 1 |
| 2026-09-25 | 0 | 0 | 27.1 | 17.6 | 41 | 12.2 | 31 | 0 | 18.8 | moderado | 1 |
| 2026-09-26 | 10 | 66 | 26.8 | 17.4 | 51 | 15.8 | 39.2 | 0.2 | 24.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2026-09-27 | 0 | 0 | 31.7 | 18 | 37 | 13.1 | 34.2 | 0.3 | 30.7 | alto | 0 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 0 | 31.8 | 20 | 37 | 13.9 | 35.6 | 0 | 33.6 | alto | 0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 0 | 0 | 29.6 | 19.1 | 46 | 13.9 | 37.4 | 0 | 34.4 | alto | 0 |
| 2026-09-30 | 0 | 0 | 26.7 | 19.7 | 47 | 14 | 36 | 0.5 | 29.4 | alto | 0 |
| 2026-10-01 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 18.2 | 66 | 11.7 | 31.7 | 4.6 | 8.9 | bajo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 7,182ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 24days
- 3 Sept 2026 – 26 Sept 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 3
- districts
- Started on
- 3 Sept
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 180
- in a single hotspot: 102 MW
- Danger at start
- 37
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 107MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
3 Sept26 Sept
26 Sept 2026
How it evolved, day by day
6 Sept
11 Sept
16 Sept
19 Sept
26 Sept
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
29°high
44km/h · peak gust
27%lowest humidity
It had gone 20 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 4.6 mm on 1 Oct.
This area had burned before
48% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 108 ha in 2021, 341 ha in 2022, 1,293 ha in 2024, 2,767 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 3,432 ha that had burned before.
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Majune where it started3,671 ha0.3 %
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2,974 ha1.0 %
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581 ha0.1 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
The weather day by day
ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Sept | 28.2 °C | 28 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 4 Sept | 29.4 °C | 34 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 5 Sept | 27.9 °C | 40 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 6 Sept | 26.7 °C | 46 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 7 Sept | 27.4 °C | 34 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 8 Sept | 23.6 °C | 49 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 9 Sept | 23.8 °C | 46 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 10 Sept | 25.9 °C | 49 % | 29 km/h | 0.9 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 11 Sept | 26.9 °C | 45 % | 31 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 25 |
| 12 Sept | 27.3 °C | 41 % | 34 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 29 |
| 13 Sept | 27.9 °C | 38 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 14 Sept | 28.3 °C | 32 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 15 Sept | 29.2 °C | 30 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 16 Sept | 27.9 °C | 27 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 17 Sept | 28.1 °C | 34 % | 39 km/h | 0.2 mm | Very high 44 |
| 18 Sept | 28.1 °C | 40 % | 42 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very high 38 |
| 19 Sept | 27.7 °C | 43 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 20 Sept | 27.2 °C | 39 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 21 Sept | 29.2 °C | 40 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 22 Sept | 26.9 °C | 46 % | 35 km/h | 0.8 mm | High 28 |
| 23 Sept | 25.6 °C | 61 % | 26 km/h | 3.5 mm | Very low 5 |
| 24 Sept | 28.7 °C | 43 % | 29 km/h | 0.8 mm | Low 11 |
| 25 Sept | 27.1 °C | 41 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 26 Sept | 26.8 °C | 51 % | 39 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 25 |
| 27 Sept after | 31.7 °C | 37 % | 34 km/h | 0.3 mm | High 31 |
| 28 Sept after | 31.8 °C | 37 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 29 Sept after | 29.6 °C | 46 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 30 Sept after | 26.7 °C | 47 % | 36 km/h | 0.5 mm | High 29 |
| 1 Oct after | 23.0 °C | 66 % | 32 km/h | 4.6 mm | Low 9 |
Before and after, from space
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Before · 27 Aug 2026
After · 3 Oct 2026
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 18 September 2026 the air beside the fire reached 88 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 40: 2.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak88 µg/m³
Days over the guideline24 days
PM1091 µg/m³
Optical depth0.91
WHO 15
1 Sept6 Sept11 Sept16 Sept21 Sept
Good
Fair
Moderate
Poor
Very poor
Extremely poor
Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Detections table · 180Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 16,714 haNgauma October 2026 · 39 days · 13 km away
- 6,689 haChimbonila4 September 2025 · 16 days · 21 km away
- 6,573 haChimbonila1 October 2023 · 17 days · 21 km away
- 7,901 haNgaumaSeptember 2024 · 20 days · 22 km away
- 11,405 haNgauma4 October 2023 · 14 days · 26 km away
- 7,892 haNgauma3 September 2026 · 24 days · 30 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Majune fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 3 September 2026 to 26 September 2026 (24 days). The perimeter dates it from 10 September 2026 to 19 September 2026.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 7,182 hectares (71.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 3 municipalities: Majune (3,671 ha, 0.3 %); Ngauma (2,974 ha, 1.0 %); Chimbonila (581 ha, 0.1 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 29.4 °C, humidity dropped to 27 % and gusts hit 44 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 44, class Very high.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Mozambique (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
Where to verify it
A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 21 September 2026 → 26 September 2026.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 10 September 2026 to 19 September 2026. 180 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
Where this data comes from
The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.