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Wildfires in Macanga

Macanga, Mozambique, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 6,497 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.9% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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. Mon 26 High 34° · 19 % · 37 km/h
  2. Tue 27 High 34° · 19 % · 37 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 16 % · 43 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Moderate 32° · 37 % · 43 km/h
  5. Fri 30 High 30° · 32 % · 41 km/h
  6. Sat 31 High 30° · 27 % · 40 km/h
  7. Sun 1 High 32° · 25 % · 44 km/h
  8. Mon 2 High 33° · 29 % · 33 km/h
  9. Tue 3 Very low 33° · 52 % · 35 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

6,497
hectares burned
0.9 %
of its area
5
fires
7,241
km²

How many times has Macanga burned?

Macanga has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2018, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Macanga fire, September 2026, with 1,390 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
6,497
cumulative ha
10 Sept 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 Macanga

  1. 1,390 ha Macanga fire, September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,818 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 3,052 ha Macanga fire, September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,029 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 76 ha Chiuta fire, September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 3,663 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 1,695 ha Macanga fire, July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,519 ha in total · 20 days
  5. 283 ha Chiuta fire, September 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,646 ha in total · 14 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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