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Wildfires in Changara

Changara, Mozambique, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 64,987 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 49).

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. Sun 1 Very high 35° · 23 % · 30 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very high 38° · 18 % · 33 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Extreme 38° · 15 % · 37 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Extreme 38° · 22 % · 34 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Extreme 39° · 20 % · 36 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Extreme 39° · 23 % · 34 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Extreme 42° · 15 % · 33 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Extreme 43° · 13 % · 45 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

64,987
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
10
fires
6,180
km²

How many times has Changara burned?

Changara has burned 10 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Changara fire, 7 October 2026, with 8,805 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 64,987 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 37,110 hectares, 6.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
10
fires
5
years with fire
64,987
cumulative ha
37,110
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 Changara

  1. 8,805 ha Changara fire, 7 October 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 13,636 ha in total · 26 days
  2. 13,239 ha Changara fire, 6 October 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 13,170 ha in total · 26 days
  3. 5,375 ha Changara fire, October 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,347 ha in total · 26 days
  4. 5,937 ha Changara fire, October 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,907 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 5,376 ha Changara fire, 29 October 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,349 ha in total · 19 days
  6. 5,041 ha Changara fire, 13 October 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,016 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 3,108 ha Changara fire, 12 October 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,402 ha in total · 23 days
  8. 5,178 ha Changara fire, 16 October 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,147 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 7,262 ha Changara fire, 16 October 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 7,226 ha in total · 22 days
  10. 5,666 ha Changara fire, 8 October 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,635 ha in total · 23 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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