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Wildfires in Balama

Balama, Mozambique, has had 39 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 195,030 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 35% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 31).

Only fires of 3,000 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. Sat 31 High 31° · 32 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sun 1 High 30° · 33 % · 38 km/h
  3. Mon 2 High 33° · 28 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 3 High 34° · 36 % · 26 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very high 35° · 24 % · 40 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very high 34° · 27 % · 40 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very high 35° · 22 % · 46 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very high 35° · 26 % · 41 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

195,030
hectares burned
35 %
of its area
39
fires
5,528
km²

How many times has Balama burned?

Balama has burned 39 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Balama fire, September 2026, with 3,169 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 195,030 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 128,230 hectares, 23 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 6× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 9× 26
39
fires
11
years with fire
195,030
cumulative ha
128,230
distinct ha

Fires larger than 3,000 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 Mozambique →

Fires that entered Balama

  1. 3,169 ha Balama fire, September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,151 ha in total · 24 days
  2. 3,895 ha Balama fire, 31 August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,870 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 478 ha Montepuez fire, 16 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 4,596 ha in total · 30 days
  4. 3,876 ha Balama fire, 15 August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,127 ha in total · 20 days
  5. 8,026 ha Balama fire, 15 August 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 7,982 ha in total · 24 days
  6. 4,131 ha Balama fire, 10 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,516 ha in total · 24 days
  7. 891 ha Montepuez fire, 1 August 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,300 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 46,643 ha Balama fire, 30 July 2026 where it started 8.4% of the municipality · 46,372 ha in total · 47 days
  9. 3,872 ha Balama fire, July 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,854 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 4,404 ha Balama fire, 6 September 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,378 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 3,266 ha Balama fire, 1 September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,246 ha in total · 21 days
  12. 4,942 ha Balama fire, 23 August 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,912 ha in total · 15 days
  13. 767 ha Montepuez fire, 21 August 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 3,320 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 3,766 ha Balama fire, 16 August 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,743 ha in total · 19 days
  15. 3,732 ha Balama fire, 12 August 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,709 ha in total · 13 days
  16. 4,493 ha Balama fire, 6 August 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,468 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 4,590 ha Balama fire, 28 July 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,565 ha in total · 12 days
  18. 3,059 ha Balama fire, 24 July 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,045 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 8,011 ha Balama fire, 20 July 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 7,969 ha in total · 19 days
  20. 3,476 ha Balama fire, August 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,455 ha in total · 17 days
  21. 3,959 ha Balama fire, August 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,938 ha in total · 22 days
  22. 1,269 ha Namuno fire, 14 August 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 5,135 ha in total · 18 days
  23. 3,487 ha Balama fire, July 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,469 ha in total · 16 days
  24. 3,955 ha Balama fire, 10 August 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,931 ha in total · 24 days
  25. 241 ha Namuno fire, August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 3,773 ha in total · 17 days
  26. 3,187 ha Balama fire, 4 August 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,168 ha in total · 15 days
  27. 8,024 ha Balama fire, 4 August 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 7,983 ha in total · 14 days
  28. 8,810 ha Balama fire, 2 August 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 8,844 ha in total · 14 days
  29. 3,510 ha Balama fire, 2 August 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,493 ha in total · 15 days
  30. 3,848 ha Balama fire, 24 August 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,825 ha in total · 17 days
  31. 3,377 ha Balama fire, 13 August 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,359 ha in total · 10 days
  32. 3,531 ha Balama fire, 1 August 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,515 ha in total · 17 days
  33. 4,224 ha Balama fire, 21 August 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,200 ha in total · 11 days
  34. 6,185 ha Balama fire, 15 August 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,147 ha in total · 23 days
  35. 3,589 ha Balama fire, July 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,571 ha in total · 6 days
  36. 3,695 ha Balama fire, 11 August 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,674 ha in total · 17 days
  37. 1,272 ha Balama fire, 9 August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,152 ha in total · 14 days
  38. 3,899 ha Balama fire, 27 July 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,879 ha in total · 14 days
  39. 5,481 ha Balama fire, 17 July 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,455 ha in total · 21 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Mozambique INE (Instituto Nacional de Estatistica), 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).

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