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Wildfires in Mangochi

Mangochi, Malawi, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 33,845 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.0% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 32).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 High 34° · 39 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 34° · 30 % · 39 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 34° · 31 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 35° · 25 % · 33 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 33° · 42 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 32° · 45 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 33° · 42 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 31° · 31 % · 46 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

33,845
hectares burned
5.0 %
of its area
23
fires
6,774
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Mangochi

  1. 1,233 ha Mangochi fire, 14 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,227 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,160 ha Mangochi fire, 14 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,154 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,021 ha Mangochi fire, 30 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,016 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 1,430 ha Mangochi fire, 29 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,422 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 1,016 ha Mangochi fire, 25 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,350 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 1,295 ha Mangochi fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,284 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 2,171 ha Mangochi fire, June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,156 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 1,405 ha Mangochi fire, September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,398 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,199 ha Mangochi fire, September 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,190 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 1,264 ha Mangochi fire, June 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,254 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 1,034 ha Mangochi fire, 10 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,028 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 1,195 ha Mangochi fire, 6 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,186 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 1,702 ha Mangochi fire, 2 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,688 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 2,848 ha Mangochi fire, 2 October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,828 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 1,196 ha Mangochi fire, August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,186 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 1,605 ha Mangochi fire, July 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,592 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 1,050 ha Mangochi fire, October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,042 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 1,231 ha Mangochi fire, October 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,222 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 1,635 ha Mangochi fire, September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,623 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 3,988 ha Mangochi fire, August 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,955 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 678 ha Mangochi fire, 18 September 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,015 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 1,354 ha Mangochi fire, 15 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,347 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 1,136 ha Mangochi fire, September 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,126 ha in total · 4 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/National Statistics Office of Malawi, OCHA ROSEA (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).