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Wildfires in Cuamba

Cuamba, Mozambique, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 58,755 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 46).

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. Fri 23 Very high 38° · 19 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 37° · 18 % · 35 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 36° · 22 % · 49 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 36° · 14 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 24 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 37° · 22 % · 41 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 33° · 40 % · 44 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 31° · 29 % · 43 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

58,755
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
11
fires
5,376
km²

How many times has Cuamba burned?

Cuamba has burned 11 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Cuamba fire, 30 August 2026, with 3,474 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 58,755 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 51,188 hectares, 9.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 3× 26
11
fires
6
years with fire
58,755
cumulative ha
51,188
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 Cuamba

  1. 3,474 ha Cuamba fire, 30 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,456 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 36,624 ha Cuamba fire, 22 August 2026 where it started 6.8% of the municipality · 61,192 ha in total · 40 days
  3. 3,145 ha Cuamba fire, 12 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,125 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 302 ha Mandimba fire, 10 September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 3,031 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 119 ha Metarica fire, 9 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 6,660 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 6,494 ha Cuamba fire, September 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 6,732 ha in total · 23 days
  7. 977 ha Metarica fire, September 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 4,905 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 98 ha Malema fire, October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 6,836 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 3,149 ha Cuamba fire, September 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,134 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 26 ha Gurué fire, August 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 7,450 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 4,346 ha Cuamba fire, August 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,314 ha in total · 5 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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