Burned area
satellite only14,689ha
Union of 3 GWIS (Copernicus) perimeters: overlapping areas count once.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 2 Sept 2025 – 2 Oct 2025
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No official record is matched to this page to compare it with.
MZ · Mozambique · –
Manica fire, 2 September 2025 Bárue, Manica
Out · last detection 2 Oct 2025, 11:58 UTC
The fire started on 2 September 2025 in Manica, Mozambique, and satellites saw it burning for 31 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 14,689 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
Number 28 in Mozambique in 2025, of 312.
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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Suggestions: Manica · 2021Bárue · 2019Bárue · 2023Bárue · 2016
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Duration by satellite
satellite only31days
2 Sept 2025 to 2 Oct 2025: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 2 Oct 2025, 11:58 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 only2 Sept 2025
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 2 Sept 2025
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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 only594
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 126 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 2 Sept 2025 – 2 Oct 2025
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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 only2,602MW
Total radiative power on 17 September 2025; hotspots that day: 121.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 17 Sept 2025
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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
model29.2FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 35.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 2 Sept 2025, 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
model35.0°C · 23% RH
High of 35.0 °C and minimum humidity of 23% on 17 September 2025; gusts of 37 km/h on 1 October 2025.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 2 Sept 2025 – 2 Oct 2025
- 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: 25 September 2025 → 2 October 2025.
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logStart date: 9 September 2025 → 2 September 2025.
What was saved on 26 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
- 14,821 ha
- Dates
- 2 Sept 2025 – 2 Oct 2025
- Name
- Bárue
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/manica-2025-09?v=2026-10-26A 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
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire manica-2025-09.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-02 | 8 | 79 | 26.7 | 14.5 | 47 | 12.6 | 32.4 | 0 | 29.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-03 | 7 | 38 | 30 | 12.4 | 31 | 5.2 | 20.5 | 0 | 27.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-04 | 8 | 172 | 32.7 | 13.9 | 20 | 11.7 | 27.7 | 0 | 44.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-05 | 5 | 29 | 30 | 15.4 | 41 | 6.7 | 20.5 | 0 | 28.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-06 | 15 | 220 | 33.3 | 14.3 | 23 | 13.3 | 30.2 | 0 | 40.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 29.7 | 17 | 40 | 7.6 | 25.9 | 0 | 28.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-08 | 3 | 99 | 29.6 | 15.6 | 36 | 8.4 | 22.7 | 0 | 28.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-09 | 35 | 588 | 29.9 | 16.4 | 35 | 9.3 | 25.2 | 0 | 28.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-10 | 18 | 143 | 29.8 | 16.3 | 39 | 8.2 | 22.3 | 0 | 28.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-11 | 7 | 33 | 30.6 | 17.2 | 34 | 8.5 | 23.8 | 0 | 29.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-12 | 17 | 72 | 30.9 | 15.9 | 33 | 8.9 | 23.4 | 0 | 30.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-13 | 58 | 1,435 | 30 | 15.2 | 27 | 7.9 | 23.8 | 0 | 35.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-14 | 10 | 177 | 31 | 14.2 | 22 | 10.3 | 24.1 | 0 | 39.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-15 | 60 | 982 | 29.8 | 13.7 | 27 | 7 | 21.6 | 0 | 35.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-16 | 36 | 562 | 33.3 | 14.2 | 22 | 7.2 | 22.3 | 0 | 36.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-17 | 121 | 2,602 | 35 | 14.7 | 23 | 10.7 | 24.8 | 0 | 40 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-18 | 20 | 169 | 31.7 | 17.5 | 41 | 8.6 | 24.5 | 0 | 35.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-19 | 3 | 31 | 31.5 | 19.5 | 34 | 12.1 | 31 | 0 | 34.2 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-20 | 22 | 319 | 28.6 | 17.7 | 42 | 13.4 | 34.9 | 0.6 | 32.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-21 | 21 | 188 | 28.2 | 16.4 | 40 | 8.5 | 24.5 | 0 | 26.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-22 | 36 | 532 | 31.4 | 15 | 32 | 7.6 | 21.2 | 0 | 29.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-23 | 44 | 991 | 34.9 | 14.9 | 26 | 13.9 | 27 | 0 | 37.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-24 | 18 | 231 | 32.9 | 18 | 39 | 8.8 | 26.3 | 0 | 34.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-25 | 2 | 53 | 28 | 19.9 | 60 | 15.4 | 33.5 | 4.5 | 14.7 | moderado | 1 |
| 2025-09-26 | 0 | 0 | 25.7 | 18.6 | 62 | 11.7 | 27.4 | 2.7 | 4.7 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2025-09-27 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 18 | 59 | 8.6 | 20.9 | 2.3 | 4.9 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2025-09-28 | 9 | 41 | 31.7 | 18.6 | 42 | 9.9 | 27.7 | 0.1 | 17.9 | moderado | 1 |
| 2025-09-29 | 9 | 30 | 31.1 | 17.7 | 49 | 12.5 | 27.4 | 0.5 | 21.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-09-30 | 0 | 0 | 22.1 | 19 | 75 | 14.1 | 30.6 | 8.1 | 1.6 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2025-10-01 | 0 | 0 | 23.6 | 15.8 | 57 | 16.6 | 37.4 | 8.6 | 2 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2025-10-02 | 2 | 20 | 27.1 | 12.5 | 41 | 6.2 | 20.5 | 0 | 5.3 | bajo | 1 |
| 2025-10-03 | 0 | 0 | 27.4 | 12.5 | 39 | 15.1 | 37.1 | 0 | 19.3 | moderado | 0 |
| 2025-10-04 | 0 | 0 | 24.2 | 17 | 62 | 16.6 | 35.3 | 7.2 | 2.4 | muy_bajo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 14,689ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 31days
- 2 Sept 2025 – 2 Oct 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- districts
- Started on
- 2 Sept
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 594
- in a single hotspot: 126 MW
- Danger at start
- 29
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 378MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
2 Sept2 Oct
2 Oct 2025
How it evolved, day by day
2 Sept
9 Sept
17 Sept
29 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
35°high
37km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity
It had gone 35 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 7.2 mm on 4 Oct.
This area had burned before
89% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 6,548 ha in 2016, 4,283 ha in 2017, 4,116 ha in 2018, 5,055 ha in 2019, 2,192 ha in 2020, 4,557 ha in 2021, 2,978 ha in 2022, 5,293 ha in 2023, 2,645 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 13,038 ha that had burned before.
- 2,087 ha Manica fire, October 2021 3,601 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,085 ha Bárue fire, September 2019 5,195 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,925 ha Bárue fire, September 2023 4,506 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,337 ha Bárue fire, September 2016 4,220 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 998 ha Bárue fire, September 2016 3,084 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 991 ha Bárue fire, September 2021 3,107 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 61 ha Bárue fire, September 2020 3,186 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 27 ha Bárue fire, October 2017 10,218 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
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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11,301 ha2.0 %
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Manica where it started3,623 ha1.4 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Sept | 26.7 °C | 47 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 3 Sept | 30.0 °C | 31 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 4 Sept | 32.7 °C | 20 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 5 Sept | 30.0 °C | 41 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 6 Sept | 33.3 °C | 23 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 7 Sept | 29.7 °C | 40 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 8 Sept | 29.6 °C | 36 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 9 Sept | 29.9 °C | 35 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 10 Sept | 29.8 °C | 39 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 11 Sept | 30.6 °C | 34 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 12 Sept | 30.9 °C | 33 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 13 Sept | 30.0 °C | 27 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 14 Sept | 31.0 °C | 22 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 15 Sept | 29.8 °C | 27 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 16 Sept | 33.3 °C | 22 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 17 Sept | 35.0 °C | 23 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 18 Sept | 31.7 °C | 41 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 19 Sept | 31.5 °C | 34 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 20 Sept | 28.6 °C | 42 % | 35 km/h | 0.6 mm | High 33 |
| 21 Sept | 28.2 °C | 40 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 22 Sept | 31.4 °C | 32 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 23 Sept | 34.9 °C | 26 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 24 Sept | 32.9 °C | 39 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 25 Sept | 28.0 °C | 60 % | 34 km/h | 4.5 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 26 Sept | 25.7 °C | 62 % | 27 km/h | 2.7 mm | Very low 5 |
| 27 Sept | 26.0 °C | 59 % | 21 km/h | 2.3 mm | Very low 5 |
| 28 Sept | 31.7 °C | 42 % | 28 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 29 Sept | 31.1 °C | 49 % | 27 km/h | 0.5 mm | High 22 |
| 30 Sept | 22.1 °C | 75 % | 31 km/h | 8.1 mm | Very low 2 |
| 1 Oct | 23.6 °C | 57 % | 37 km/h | 8.6 mm | Very low 2 |
| 2 Oct | 27.1 °C | 41 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 5 |
| 3 Oct after | 27.4 °C | 39 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 4 Oct after | 24.2 °C | 62 % | 35 km/h | 7.2 mm | Very low 2 |
Before and after, from space
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Before · 26 Aug 2025
After · 9 Oct 2025
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 8 September 2025 the air beside the fire reached 148 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 75: 5.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak148 µg/m³
Days over the guideline22 days
PM10154 µg/m³
Optical depth0.81
WHO 15
7 Sept12 Sept17 Sept22 Sept27 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 · 594Every 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
- 9,318 haBárue11 September 2026 · 18 days · 14 km away
- 11,425 haBárue5 September 2016 · 28 days · 28 km away
- 8,682 haBárue11 September 2026 · 19 days · 29 km away
- 9,363 haBárue5 September 2022 · 24 days · 31 km away
- 10,218 haBárue12 October 2017 · 15 days · 34 km away
- 8,166 haBárue4 August 2019 · 10 days · 35 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Manica fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 2 September 2025 to 2 October 2025 (31 days). The perimeter dates it from 9 September 2025 to 25 September 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 14,689 hectares (146.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Bárue (11,301 ha, 2.0 %); Manica (3,623 ha, 1.4 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 35.0 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 37 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 45, 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 · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 25 September 2025 → 2 October 2025.
- Start date: 9 September 2025 → 2 September 2025.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 3 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 9 September 2025 to 25 September 2025. 594 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.