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Wildfires in Chicualacuala

Chicualacuala, Mozambique, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 83,657 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.3% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 33).

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. Tue 3 High 37° · 26 % · 28 km/h
  2. Wed 4 High 36° · 30 % · 31 km/h
  3. Thu 5 High 37° · 29 % · 31 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very high 39° · 18 % · 35 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very high 40° · 24 % · 32 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very high 36° · 42 % · 59 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Moderate 27° · 54 % · 56 km/h
  8. Tue 10 High 33° · 31 % · 29 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

83,657
hectares burned
7.3 %
of its area
20
fires
11,446
km²

How many times has Chicualacuala burned?

Chicualacuala has burned 20 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Chicualacuala fire, October 2026, with 6,161 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 83,657 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 74,727 hectares, 6.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 3× 26
20
fires
9
years with fire
83,657
cumulative ha
74,727
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 Chicualacuala

  1. 6,161 ha Chicualacuala fire, October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,151 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 3,453 ha Chicualacuala fire, 23 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,923 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 4,478 ha Chicualacuala fire, 16 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,445 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 5,682 ha Chicualacuala fire, September 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,675 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 2,054 ha Chicualacuala fire, 22 August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,543 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 5,953 ha Chicualacuala fire, 21 August 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,893 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 3,669 ha Chicualacuala fire, June 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,635 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 3,609 ha Chicualacuala fire, 13 October 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,573 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 5,799 ha Chicualacuala fire, 10 October 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,747 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 5,853 ha Chicualacuala fire, September 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,796 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 3,026 ha Chicualacuala fire, 28 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,050 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 3,760 ha Chicualacuala fire, 15 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,761 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 4,584 ha Chicualacuala fire, 14 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,581 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 35 ha Mapai fire, July 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,897 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 4,616 ha Chicualacuala fire, 10 November 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,576 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 7,748 ha Chicualacuala fire, 10 November 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,673 ha in total · 9 days
  17. 3,066 ha Chicualacuala fire, September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,063 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 2,700 ha Chicualacuala fire, January 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,125 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 4,024 ha Chicualacuala fire, November 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,023 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 3,385 ha Chicualacuala fire, August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,353 ha in total · 3 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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