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Wildfires in Mabalane

Mabalane, Mozambique, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 25,538 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.8% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

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 24 Moderate 31° · 38 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 34° · 35 % · 28 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 36° · 29 % · 31 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 38° · 28 % · 35 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 30° · 47 % · 52 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 30° · 34 % · 39 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 30° · 30 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 31° · 32 % · 39 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

25,538
hectares burned
2.8 %
of its area
12
fires
8,962
km²

How many times has Mabalane burned?

Mabalane has burned 12 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Mabalane fire, October 2025, with 2,669 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 25,538 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 23,583 hectares, 2.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
12
fires
6
years with fire
25,538
cumulative ha
23,583
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 Mabalane

  1. 2,669 ha Mabalane fire, October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,446 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 97 ha Mapai fire, 12 September 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 5,585 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 938 ha Mapai fire, 27 November 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 9,110 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 3,671 ha Mabalane fire, October 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,668 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 3,292 ha Mabalane fire, 18 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,288 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 3,780 ha Mabalane fire, 8 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,997 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 1,709 ha Mapai fire, 5 September 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 4,315 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 1,615 ha Mapai fire, 7 August 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 4,598 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 5,351 ha Mabalane fire, November 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,098 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 299 ha Mapai fire, 15 October 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 4,904 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 414 ha Chigubo fire, 18 September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 13,795 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 1,703 ha Chigubo fire, 1 October 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 5,369 ha in total · 9 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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