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Wildfires in Lago

Lago, Mozambique, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 32,201 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 45).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 Very high 34° · 28 % · 49 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 20 % · 45 km/h
  3. Thu 29 High 36° · 28 % · 39 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Low 31° · 42 % · 37 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Low 30° · 52 % · 35 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Low 31° · 41 % · 43 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Moderate 32° · 45 % · 48 km/h
  8. Tue 3 High 34° · 37 % · 44 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

32,201
hectares burned
4.9 %
of its area
7
fires
6,595
km²

How many times has Lago burned?

Lago has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Lago fire, 6 October 2026, with 3,213 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 32,201 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 29,730 hectares, 4.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
7
fires
4
years with fire
32,201
cumulative ha
29,730
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 Lago

  1. 14 ha Sanga fire, 18 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 3,402 ha Lago fire, 16 October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 3,213 ha Lago fire, 6 October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,194 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 7,318 ha Lago fire, 4 October 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 7,292 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 4,546 ha Lago fire, 4 October 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,514 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 3,885 ha Lago fire, September 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,857 ha in total · 30 days
  7. 4,664 ha Lago fire, 23 October 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,645 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 4,379 ha Lago fire, 22 October 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,348 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 4,195 ha Lago fire, October 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,164 ha in total · 24 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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