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Wildfires in Liúpo

Liúpo, Mozambique: 46 fires since 2016 burned 248,220 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.2 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: high (FWI 23).

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 30 High 32° · 37 % · 48 km/h
  2. Sat 31 High 33° · 36 % · 46 km/h
  3. Sun 1 High 33° · 32 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 2 High 36° · 35 % · 44 km/h
  5. Tue 3 High 35° · 37 % · 40 km/h
  6. Wed 4 High 35° · 36 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Moderate 35° · 36 % · 44 km/h
  8. Fri 6 High 36° · 32 % · 48 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

248,220
hectares burned
1.2×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
46
fires
2,133
km²

How many times has Liúpo burned?

Liúpo has burned 46 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Liúpo fire, 4 October 2026, with 3,577 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 6× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 5× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 5× 26
46
fires
11
years with fire
248,220
cumulative ha
4 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 Liúpo

  1. 3,577 ha Liúpo fire, 4 October 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,554 ha in total · 27 days
  2. 3,729 ha Liúpo fire, 27 September 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 10,918 ha in total · 35 days
  3. 4,536 ha Liúpo fire, 24 September 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 4,509 ha in total · 24 days
  4. 5,752 ha Liúpo fire, 11 September 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 7,457 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 27,519 ha Liúpo fire, August 2026 where it started 13% of the municipality · 27,354 ha in total · 31 days
  6. 3,081 ha Liúpo fire, 24 October 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,333 ha in total · 16 days
  7. 3,369 ha Liúpo fire, 17 October 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,352 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 4,600 ha Liúpo fire, 9 October 2025 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 4,749 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 15,345 ha Liúpo fire, 9 October 2025 where it started 7.2% of the municipality · 15,883 ha in total · 40 days
  10. 3,910 ha Liúpo fire, 16 September 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,887 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 3,575 ha Liúpo fire, 9 September 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,740 ha in total · 21 days
  12. 1 ha Mogovolas fire, 8 September 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 7,599 ha in total · 22 days
  13. 351 ha Liúpo fire, September 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,972 ha in total · 17 days
  14. 4,285 ha Liúpo fire, August 2024 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 4,275 ha in total · 11 days
  15. 6,488 ha Liúpo fire, October 2023 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 7,097 ha in total · 20 days
  16. 43 ha Angoche fire, September 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 4,492 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 5,200 ha Liúpo fire, 19 September 2023 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 5,170 ha in total · 14 days
  18. 8,057 ha Liúpo fire, 16 September 2023 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 8,508 ha in total · 20 days
  19. 7,377 ha Liúpo fire, 11 September 2023 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 7,335 ha in total · 20 days
  20. 2,373 ha Liúpo fire, November 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,534 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 525 ha Liúpo fire, 7 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,255 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 534 ha Angoche fire, October 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 5,096 ha in total · 9 days
  23. 19,041 ha Liúpo fire, 3 October 2022 where it started 8.9% of the municipality · 18,931 ha in total · 14 days
  24. 7,474 ha Liúpo fire, September 2022 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 7,822 ha in total · 23 days
  25. 566 ha Angoche fire, October 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 3,211 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 3,767 ha Liúpo fire, 12 October 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,745 ha in total · 16 days
  27. 3,562 ha Liúpo fire, 3 October 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,542 ha in total · 8 days
  28. 4,079 ha Liúpo fire, 19 September 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 4,055 ha in total · 15 days
  29. 1,189 ha Mogovolas fire, September 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 5,865 ha in total · 18 days
  30. 15,834 ha Liúpo fire, 6 September 2020 where it started 7.4% of the municipality · 16,681 ha in total · 23 days
  31. 3,300 ha Liúpo fire, August 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,282 ha in total · 16 days
  32. 3,450 ha Liúpo fire, October 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,428 ha in total · 13 days
  33. 7,150 ha Liúpo fire, October 2018 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 7,104 ha in total · 12 days
  34. 4,438 ha Liúpo fire, 26 September 2018 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 5,287 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 13,864 ha Liúpo fire, 18 September 2018 where it started 6.5% of the municipality · 13,785 ha in total · 19 days
  36. 10,604 ha Liúpo fire, 15 October 2017 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 11,656 ha in total · 13 days
  37. 3,107 ha Liúpo fire, 10 October 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,087 ha in total · 17 days
  38. 2,397 ha Mogovolas fire, October 2017 1.1% of the municipality · 4,637 ha in total · 7 days
  39. 5,560 ha Liúpo fire, 6 October 2017 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 5,527 ha in total · 12 days
  40. 5,472 ha Liúpo fire, 5 October 2017 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 5,440 ha in total · 14 days
  41. 125 ha Mogovolas fire, 20 October 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 3,547 ha in total · 6 days
  42. 7,495 ha Liúpo fire, 23 September 2016 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 7,604 ha in total · 11 days
  43. 303 ha Angoche fire, September 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 4,888 ha in total · 18 days
  44. 3,201 ha Liúpo fire, 6 September 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,319 ha in total · 12 days
  45. 4,548 ha Liúpo fire, 6 September 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 4,522 ha in total · 17 days
  46. 3,469 ha Liúpo fire, 5 September 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,448 ha in total · 20 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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