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Wildfires in Dondo

Dondo, Mozambique, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 39,936 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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 25 Very low 31° · 49 % · 32 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 32° · 51 % · 30 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Moderate 37° · 26 % · 33 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Moderate 32° · 58 % · 41 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 29° · 62 % · 48 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Moderate 29° · 41 % · 40 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Moderate 29° · 39 % · 39 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Moderate 29° · 47 % · 35 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

39,936
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
10
fires
2,322
km²

How many times has Dondo burned?

Dondo has burned 10 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Dondo fire, 12 September 2026, with 2,822 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 39,936 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 33,048 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
10
fires
6
years with fire
39,936
cumulative ha
33,048
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 Dondo

  1. 2,822 ha Dondo fire, 12 September 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 7,117 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 3,969 ha Dondo fire, 12 September 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,948 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 1,953 ha Nhamatanda fire, October 2025 0.8% of the municipality · 3,813 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 20 ha Muanza fire, 26 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 4,224 ha in total · 22 days
  5. 4,136 ha Dondo fire, September 2022 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,120 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 10,544 ha Dondo fire, October 2021 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 10,813 ha in total · 25 days
  7. 1,694 ha Muanza fire, 28 October 2020 0.7% of the municipality · 4,135 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 82 ha Muanza fire, 25 September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,098 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 3,083 ha Dondo fire, October 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,066 ha in total · 18 days
  10. 11,632 ha Muanza fire, 7 October 2019 5.0% of the municipality · 58,511 ha in total · 39 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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