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Wildfires in Macomia

Macomia, Mozambique, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 28,216 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.7% 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. Sat 24 High 34° · 45 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 33° · 47 % · 45 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 44 % · 37 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 49 % · 45 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 33° · 39 % · 42 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 34° · 40 % · 40 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 33° · 46 % · 39 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 33° · 48 % · 46 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

28,216
hectares burned
6.7 %
of its area
7
fires
4,219
km²

How many times has Macomia burned?

Macomia has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. The most recent: Mocimboa Da Praia fire, November 2022, with 4,005 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 28,216 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 27,029 hectares, 6.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
4
years with fire
28,216
cumulative ha
27,029
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 Macomia

  1. 4,005 ha Mocimboa Da Praia fire, November 2022 1.0% of the municipality · 4,195 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 3,472 ha Macomia fire, October 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,451 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,014 ha Mocimboa Da Praia fire, 12 October 2022 0.5% of the municipality · 4,135 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 7,043 ha Macomia fire, 18 August 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 6,997 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 4,173 ha Macomia fire, 12 August 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,144 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 2,231 ha Quissanga fire, July 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 3,073 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 5,278 ha Macomia fire, September 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,243 ha in total · 12 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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