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Wildfires in Lalaua

Lalaua, Mozambique, has had 55 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 294,362 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 65% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).

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. Thu 12 Very high 34° · 36 % · 40 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Moderate 34° · 40 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sat 14 High 34° · 43 % · 32 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Very low 30° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Very low 30° · 63 % · 28 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Very low 31° · 59 % · 32 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Very low 32° · 49 % · 49 km/h
  8. Thu 19 Very low 31° · 57 % · 32 km/h
  9. Fri 20 Very low 31° · 72 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Lalaua: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

294,362
hectares burned
65 %
of its area
55
fires
4,557
km²

How many times has Lalaua burned?

Lalaua has burned 55 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Lalaua fire, 16 August 2026, with 3,709 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 7× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 6× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 5× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 9× 25
  11. 12× 26
55
fires
10
years with fire
294,362
cumulative ha
16 Aug 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 Lalaua

  1. 3,709 ha Lalaua fire, 16 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,685 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 2,011 ha Ribaué fire, 14 August 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 8,950 ha in total · 22 days
  3. 4,109 ha Lalaua fire, 14 August 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,532 ha in total · 24 days
  4. 9,895 ha Lalaua fire, 11 August 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 9,783 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 20,752 ha Lalaua fire, 9 August 2026 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 51,698 ha in total · 37 days
  6. 3,670 ha Lalaua fire, 9 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,648 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,273 ha Ribaué fire, 8 August 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 4,045 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 3,194 ha Lalaua fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,173 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 5,111 ha Lalaua fire, 4 August 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,079 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 11,304 ha Lalaua fire, 4 August 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 11,242 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 4,429 ha Lalaua fire, 4 August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,401 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 4,616 ha Lalaua fire, 4 August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,587 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 4,573 ha Lalaua fire, 12 September 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,543 ha in total · 18 days
  14. 3,978 ha Lalaua fire, 2 September 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,162 ha in total · 17 days
  15. 5,821 ha Lalaua fire, 23 August 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 5,785 ha in total · 22 days
  16. 14,519 ha Lalaua fire, 22 August 2025 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 14,425 ha in total · 16 days
  17. 2,725 ha Lalaua fire, 22 August 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,202 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 3,669 ha Lalaua fire, 22 August 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,952 ha in total · 15 days
  19. 8,280 ha Lalaua fire, 18 August 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 8,466 ha in total · 19 days
  20. 838 ha Mecubúri fire, 18 August 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 3,602 ha in total · 14 days
  21. 16,577 ha Malema fire, 18 August 2025 3.6% of the municipality · 45,965 ha in total · 39 days
  22. 3,150 ha Lalaua fire, August 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,161 ha in total · 13 days
  23. 3,072 ha Lalaua fire, 26 July 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,113 ha in total · 13 days
  24. 12,365 ha Lalaua fire, 23 July 2024 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 12,287 ha in total · 18 days
  25. 7,222 ha Lalaua fire, September 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 7,178 ha in total · 10 days
  26. 65 ha Ribaué fire, 11 September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,746 ha in total · 14 days
  27. 8,063 ha Lalaua fire, September 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 7,966 ha in total · 15 days
  28. 3,305 ha Lalaua fire, 26 August 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,286 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 3,771 ha Lalaua fire, 24 August 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,749 ha in total · 14 days
  30. 3,494 ha Ribaué fire, August 2021 0.8% of the municipality · 7,363 ha in total · 16 days
  31. 3,915 ha Lalaua fire, 4 August 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,889 ha in total · 8 days
  32. 7,205 ha Ribaué fire, 3 August 2020 1.6% of the municipality · 8,720 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 3,566 ha Lalaua fire, 3 August 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,542 ha in total · 8 days
  34. 3,182 ha Lalaua fire, 20 August 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,166 ha in total · 8 days
  35. 6,973 ha Lalaua fire, 7 August 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 6,936 ha in total · 16 days
  36. 6,694 ha Lalaua fire, 7 August 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 6,652 ha in total · 9 days
  37. 3,543 ha Lalaua fire, 6 August 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,522 ha in total · 13 days
  38. 5,101 ha Lalaua fire, 5 August 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,066 ha in total · 11 days
  39. 4,172 ha Lalaua fire, September 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,230 ha in total · 13 days
  40. 3,270 ha Lalaua fire, 26 August 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,250 ha in total · 4 days
  41. 3,125 ha Lalaua fire, 25 August 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,105 ha in total · 5 days
  42. 3,824 ha Lalaua fire, 21 August 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,797 ha in total · 15 days
  43. 3,456 ha Lalaua fire, 7 August 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,522 ha in total · 10 days
  44. 3,070 ha Lalaua fire, 6 August 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,049 ha in total · 18 days
  45. 1,308 ha Malema fire, 2 September 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 3,192 ha in total · 13 days
  46. 4,827 ha Lalaua fire, 23 August 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,796 ha in total · 23 days
  47. 3,065 ha Lalaua fire, 22 August 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,046 ha in total · 5 days
  48. 3,774 ha Lalaua fire, 18 August 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,750 ha in total · 17 days
  49. 6,377 ha Lalaua fire, 5 September 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 6,340 ha in total · 13 days
  50. 9,413 ha Lalaua fire, 4 September 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 9,351 ha in total · 12 days
  51. 3,702 ha Lalaua fire, 3 September 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,680 ha in total · 15 days
  52. 7,562 ha Lalaua fire, 18 August 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 7,533 ha in total · 9 days
  53. 4,086 ha Lalaua fire, 17 August 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,063 ha in total · 10 days
  54. 2,772 ha Ribaué fire, August 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 4,576 ha in total · 9 days
  55. 6,821 ha Lalaua fire, 9 August 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 6,784 ha in total · 16 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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