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Wildfires in Macossa

Macossa, Mozambique, has had 62 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 204,204 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 High 40° · 19 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 55 % · 37 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 30° · 44 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 33° · 24 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 36° · 25 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 38° · 21 % · 49 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 30° · 34 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 28° · 35 % · 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

204,204
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
62
fires
9,609
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Macossa

  1. 84 ha Gorongosa fire, 11 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 3,703 ha Macossa fire, 12 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,689 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 15 ha Bárue fire, 11 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 13,314 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 4,318 ha Macossa fire, 11 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,298 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 802 ha Gorongosa fire, 11 September 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,622 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 4,786 ha Macossa fire, 11 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,082 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 17,895 ha Macossa fire, 11 September 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 28,721 ha in total · 18 days
  8. 2,370 ha Bárue fire, 4 September 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 4,172 ha in total · 21 days
  9. 3,261 ha Macossa fire, 1 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,132 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 3,794 ha Bárue fire, 21 August 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 14,805 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 4,886 ha Macossa fire, 20 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,858 ha in total · 15 days
  12. 3,227 ha Macossa fire, 3 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,220 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 4,016 ha Macossa fire, 3 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,999 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 1,422 ha Gorongosa fire, 1 August 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,026 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 3,204 ha Macossa fire, 27 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,182 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 3,280 ha Macossa fire, 18 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,266 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 51 ha Gorongosa fire, 16 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,103 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 739 ha Bárue fire, 12 September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 3,262 ha in total · 13 days
  19. 3,662 ha Macossa fire, 10 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,645 ha in total · 10 days
  20. 698 ha Bárue fire, 9 September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 7,110 ha in total · 12 days
  21. 7,617 ha Macossa fire, 9 September 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 7,588 ha in total · 14 days
  22. 8,461 ha Macossa fire, 30 August 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 8,430 ha in total · 25 days
  23. 6,854 ha Macossa fire, 29 August 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 30,185 ha in total · 25 days
  24. 3,592 ha Macossa fire, 23 August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,582 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 4,810 ha Macossa fire, 22 August 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,789 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 785 ha Gorongosa fire, 20 August 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 59,348 ha in total · 40 days
  27. 3,625 ha Macossa fire, August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,919 ha in total · 11 days
  28. 3,507 ha Macossa fire, July 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,484 ha in total · 3 days
  29. 3,664 ha Macossa fire, September 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,207 ha in total · 9 days
  30. 114 ha Bárue fire, 3 September 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 7,413 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 11,268 ha Bárue fire, 1 September 2023 1.2% of the municipality · 27,713 ha in total · 25 days
  32. 3,350 ha Macossa fire, 20 August 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,342 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 2,220 ha Macossa fire, 19 August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,517 ha in total · 8 days
  34. 71 ha Gorongosa fire, August 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 6,027 ha in total · 9 days
  35. 3,625 ha Macossa fire, 12 August 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,604 ha in total · 11 days
  36. 5,128 ha Macossa fire, 17 September 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,238 ha in total · 13 days
  37. 4,012 ha Macossa fire, 17 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,992 ha in total · 4 days
  38. 251 ha Bárue fire, 17 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 9,737 ha in total · 23 days
  39. 2,627 ha Bárue fire, 16 September 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 7,292 ha in total · 10 days
  40. 2,169 ha Bárue fire, 9 September 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 13,764 ha in total · 16 days
  41. 2,810 ha Macossa fire, October 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,462 ha in total · 4 days
  42. 5,332 ha Macossa fire, September 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,584 ha in total · 8 days
  43. 1,138 ha Bárue fire, 12 September 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 3,116 ha in total · 6 days
  44. 593 ha Guro fire, August 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 3,010 ha in total · 2 days
  45. 3,068 ha Macossa fire, July 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,062 ha in total · 4 days
  46. 752 ha Bárue fire, 13 September 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 3,879 ha in total · 9 days
  47. 3,709 ha Macossa fire, August 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,699 ha in total · 6 days
  48. 232 ha Bárue fire, 11 August 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,145 ha in total · 9 days
  49. 3,278 ha Macossa fire, July 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,269 ha in total · 1 day
  50. 411 ha Bárue fire, 28 August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,706 ha in total · 9 days
  51. 3,622 ha Macossa fire, August 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,252 ha in total · 10 days
  52. 92 ha Bárue fire, 4 August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 8,166 ha in total · 10 days
  53. 4,140 ha Macossa fire, 21 July 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,128 ha in total · 4 days
  54. 3,041 ha Macossa fire, 18 July 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,034 ha in total · 4 days
  55. 0 ha Bárue fire, 3 September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 8,887 ha in total · 10 days
  56. 1,173 ha Gorongosa fire, 2 September 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 8,285 ha in total · 8 days
  57. 7,732 ha Macossa fire, September 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 7,699 ha in total · 9 days
  58. 2,783 ha Macossa fire, 21 September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 8,708 ha in total · 17 days
  59. 4,379 ha Macossa fire, 15 September 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,360 ha in total · 4 days
  60. 487 ha Bárue fire, 10 September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,005 ha in total · 7 days
  61. 8,504 ha Macossa fire, September 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 8,469 ha in total · 9 days
  62. 2,750 ha Bárue fire, 5 September 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 25,445 ha in total · 18 days
  63. 297 ha Bárue fire, 5 September 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,229 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).