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Wildfires in Chigubo

Chigubo, Mozambique, has had 25 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 99,005 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.7% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 35).

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 High 36° · 27 % · 37 km/h
  2. Mon 2 High 34° · 34 % · 35 km/h
  3. Tue 3 High 36° · 33 % · 35 km/h
  4. Wed 4 High 37° · 33 % · 35 km/h
  5. Thu 5 High 36° · 31 % · 34 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very high 39° · 22 % · 33 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Extreme 41° · 25 % · 44 km/h
  8. Sun 8 High 40° · 46 % · 58 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

99,005
hectares burned
9.7 %
of its area
25
fires
10,179
km²

How many times has Chigubo burned?

Chigubo has burned 25 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mabote fire, 28 October 2026, with 12 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 99,005 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 87,437 hectares, 8.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 7× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 5× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 2× 26
25
fires
8
years with fire
99,005
cumulative ha
87,437
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 Chigubo

  1. 12 ha Mabote fire, 28 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 10,620 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 4,730 ha Chigubo fire, October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,697 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,792 ha Mabalane fire, October 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 4,446 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 3,896 ha Chigubo fire, October 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,877 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 3,082 ha Chigubo fire, September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,067 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 3,245 ha Chigubo fire, 13 October 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,225 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 5,330 ha Chigubo fire, 9 October 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,309 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 615 ha Mapai fire, 11 September 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 5,585 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 3,204 ha Chigubo fire, December 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,186 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 5,321 ha Chigubo fire, October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,914 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 37 ha Mapai fire, 17 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 4,369 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 512 ha Mapai fire, 7 August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 4,598 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 761 ha Mabalane fire, November 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 6,098 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 7,067 ha Chigubo fire, November 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,016 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 13,462 ha Chigubo fire, 18 September 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 13,795 ha in total · 11 days
  16. 3,180 ha Chigubo fire, 14 September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,159 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 4,527 ha Chigubo fire, 14 September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,498 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 3,430 ha Chigubo fire, November 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,395 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 2,003 ha Chigubo fire, 6 October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,169 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 3,688 ha Chigubo fire, 1 October 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,369 ha in total · 9 days
  21. 4,178 ha Chigubo fire, 30 September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,162 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 2,931 ha Chigubo fire, 27 September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,037 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 5,933 ha Chigubo fire, 26 September 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,888 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 9,963 ha Chigubo fire, 18 September 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 9,909 ha in total · 22 days
  25. 6,106 ha Chigubo fire, 17 September 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,060 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/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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