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Wildfires in Búzi

Búzi, Mozambique, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 22,165 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, 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 27 High 37° · 25 % · 31 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 55 % · 37 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Moderate 32° · 35 % · 42 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Moderate 30° · 32 % · 40 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Moderate 30° · 45 % · 33 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Moderate 31° · 38 % · 36 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Moderate 32° · 40 % · 41 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Moderate 35° · 42 % · 35 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

22,165
hectares burned
3.1 %
of its area
4
fires
7,260
km²

How many times has Búzi burned?

Búzi has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2020, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Búzi fire, October 2026, with 12,221 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 22,165 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,491 hectares, 2.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
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  5. 1× 20
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  7. 1× 22
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  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
4
years with fire
22,165
cumulative ha
16,491
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 Búzi

  1. 1,036 ha Chibabava fire, October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 12,221 ha Búzi fire, October 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 12,332 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 3,281 ha Búzi fire, October 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,271 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 3,509 ha Búzi fire, August 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,497 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 3,154 ha Búzi fire, October 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,145 ha in total · 16 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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