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Wildfires in Gurué

Gurué, Mozambique, has had 50 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 230,609 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 41% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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 31 Moderate 28° · 35 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Moderate 30° · 33 % · 24 km/h
  3. Mon 2 High 32° · 31 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 3 High 33° · 32 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Moderate 32° · 35 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Moderate 32° · 38 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Moderate 33° · 35 % · 33 km/h
  8. Sat 7 High 34° · 27 % · 24 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

230,609
hectares burned
41 %
of its area
50
fires
5,673
km²

How many times has Gurué burned?

Gurué has burned 50 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Gurué fire, 9 October 2026, with 8,855 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 6× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 5× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 11× 26
50
fires
11
years with fire
230,609
cumulative ha
9 Oct 2026
most recent

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 Gurué

  1. 8,855 ha Gurué fire, 9 October 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 8,810 ha in total · 23 days
  2. 3,212 ha Gurué fire, 7 October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,197 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 8,091 ha Gurué fire, 1 September 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 8,051 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 7,008 ha Gurué fire, 31 August 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 12,531 ha in total · 31 days
  5. 379 ha Namarrói fire, 24 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,032 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 10,396 ha Namarrói fire, 16 August 2026 1.8% of the municipality · 219,876 ha in total · 44 days
  7. 8,522 ha Gurué fire, 16 August 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 11,093 ha in total · 23 days
  8. 4,496 ha Gurué fire, 15 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,471 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 3,152 ha Gurué fire, 15 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,136 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 2,628 ha Gurué fire, 9 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,640 ha in total · 19 days
  11. 3,603 ha Gurué fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,585 ha in total · 23 days
  12. 3,962 ha Gurué fire, 21 October 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,941 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 3,786 ha Gurué fire, 17 October 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,768 ha in total · 16 days
  14. 3,977 ha Gurué fire, 2 October 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,960 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 3,097 ha Gurué fire, September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,082 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 589 ha Namarrói fire, 4 September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 49,802 ha in total · 26 days
  17. 893 ha Namarrói fire, 14 September 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 7,189 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 168 ha Ile fire, 11 September 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 5,878 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 5,190 ha Gurué fire, September 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,168 ha in total · 14 days
  20. 3,419 ha Gurué fire, July 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,402 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 2,262 ha Malema fire, October 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 4,388 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 922 ha Malema fire, October 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 6,836 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 4,689 ha Gurué fire, 28 September 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,666 ha in total · 18 days
  24. 5,683 ha Gurué fire, 13 September 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,653 ha in total · 17 days
  25. 4,528 ha Gurué fire, October 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,505 ha in total · 13 days
  26. 3,681 ha Gurué fire, September 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,772 ha in total · 14 days
  27. 1,094 ha Malema fire, September 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 3,355 ha in total · 14 days
  28. 0 ha Namarrói fire, 11 September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,277 ha in total · 19 days
  29. 1,288 ha Namarrói fire, 9 September 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 3,161 ha in total · 20 days
  30. 3,678 ha Gurué fire, August 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,660 ha in total · 12 days
  31. 8,161 ha Gurué fire, October 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 8,121 ha in total · 9 days
  32. 325 ha Namarrói fire, 26 August 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 4,138 ha in total · 12 days
  33. 3,454 ha Gurué fire, 26 August 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,476 ha in total · 12 days
  34. 3,269 ha Gurué fire, 13 August 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,253 ha in total · 11 days
  35. 3,416 ha Gurué fire, 4 August 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,400 ha in total · 11 days
  36. 3,573 ha Gurué fire, October 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,556 ha in total · 5 days
  37. 3,787 ha Gurué fire, 15 September 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,771 ha in total · 8 days
  38. 8,666 ha Gurué fire, 12 September 2018 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 8,625 ha in total · 17 days
  39. 12,309 ha Namarrói fire, 6 September 2018 2.2% of the municipality · 52,686 ha in total · 31 days
  40. 3,216 ha Gurué fire, 6 September 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,199 ha in total · 4 days
  41. 9,829 ha Gurué fire, October 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 9,780 ha in total · 21 days
  42. 3,475 ha Gurué fire, 8 September 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,460 ha in total · 13 days
  43. 13,654 ha Gurué fire, 6 September 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 20,261 ha in total · 22 days
  44. 11,968 ha Gurué fire, 6 September 2017 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 11,909 ha in total · 25 days
  45. 2,315 ha Gurué fire, 18 September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,014 ha in total · 22 days
  46. 4,926 ha Gurué fire, 18 September 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,034 ha in total · 15 days
  47. 3,026 ha Gurué fire, 15 September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,008 ha in total · 18 days
  48. 3,317 ha Gurué fire, 13 September 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,300 ha in total · 14 days
  49. 8,449 ha Namarrói fire, 7 September 2016 1.5% of the municipality · 21,565 ha in total · 26 days
  50. 6,225 ha Gurué fire, August 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 7,450 ha in total · 17 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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