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Wildfires in Marovoay

Marovoay, Madagascar, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 119,929 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 27).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 3 High 37° · 32 % · 40 km/h
  2. Wed 4 High 36° · 32 % · 39 km/h
  3. Thu 5 High 37° · 21 % · 31 km/h
  4. Fri 6 High 37° · 25 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very high 38° · 14 % · 40 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very high 38° · 16 % · 39 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Moderate 39° · 25 % · 39 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Moderate 39° · 19 % · 66 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

119,929
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
17
fires
5,642
km²

How many times has Marovoay burned?

Marovoay has burned 17 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Marovoay fire, 12 October 2026, with 2,237 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 119,929 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 58,503 hectares, 10 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
17
fires
9
years with fire
119,929
cumulative ha
58,503
distinct ha

Fires larger than 2,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Madagascar →

Fires that entered Marovoay

  1. 196 ha Ambato Boeni fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 196 ha Mitsinjo fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 2,237 ha Marovoay fire, 12 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,222 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 2,765 ha Marovoay fire, 10 October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,747 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 400 ha Ambato Boeni fire, August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,538 ha in total · 29 days
  6. 36,808 ha Marovoay fire, September 2025 where it started 6.5% of the municipality · 37,565 ha in total · 55 days
  7. 2,259 ha Marovoay fire, October 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,246 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 6,567 ha Marovoay fire, September 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 8,269 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 3,106 ha Ambato Boeni fire, September 2023 0.6% of the municipality · 4,063 ha in total · 19 days
  10. 11,144 ha Marovoay fire, September 2022 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 11,083 ha in total · 25 days
  11. 1,247 ha Marovoay fire, October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,157 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 334 ha Ambato Boeni fire, September 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 4,402 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 13,783 ha Marovoay fire, September 2021 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 15,131 ha in total · 17 days
  14. 9,237 ha Ambato Boeni fire, October 2020 1.6% of the municipality · 9,918 ha in total · 17 days
  15. 4,695 ha Marovoay fire, September 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,669 ha in total · 14 days
  16. 2,063 ha Ambato Boeni fire, September 2018 0.4% of the municipality · 4,109 ha in total · 26 days
  17. 8,388 ha Marovoay fire, September 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 8,340 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 522 ha Ambato Boeni fire, September 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,553 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 14,375 ha Marovoay fire, September 2016 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 14,296 ha in total · 19 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Madagascar National Disaster Management Office (BNGRC), OCHA ROSA (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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