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Wildfires in Chiuta

Chiuta, Mozambique, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 66,616 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.3% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 53).

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 24 Extreme 36° · 27 % · 53 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Extreme 36° · 25 % · 45 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very high 38° · 23 % · 38 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 40° · 16 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Extreme 42° · 11 % · 73 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Extreme 36° · 34 % · 49 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Extreme 34° · 29 % · 50 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very high 33° · 24 % · 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

66,616
hectares burned
9.3 %
of its area
14
fires
7,164
km²

How many times has Chiuta burned?

Chiuta has burned 14 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Chiuta fire, September 2026, with 3,562 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 66,616 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 48,186 hectares, 6.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 4× 26
14
fires
8
years with fire
66,616
cumulative ha
48,186
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 Chiuta

  1. 3,562 ha Chiuta fire, September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,544 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 3,455 ha Macanga fire, September 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 4,818 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 4,265 ha Chiuta fire, 26 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,245 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 11,681 ha Chiuta fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 11,621 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 7,302 ha Chiuta fire, September 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 7,265 ha in total · 18 days
  6. 4,211 ha Chiuta fire, July 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,189 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 3,020 ha Chiuta fire, August 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,001 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 5,857 ha Chiuta fire, September 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,828 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 12 ha Moatize fire, 13 September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 7,882 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 3,913 ha Chiuta fire, September 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,893 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 3,402 ha Chiuta fire, August 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,382 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 3,603 ha Chiuta fire, September 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,663 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 8,952 ha Chiuta fire, August 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 8,906 ha in total · 12 days
  14. 3,381 ha Chiuta fire, September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,646 ha in total · 6 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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