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Wildfires in Magude

Magude, Mozambique, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 22,411 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.2% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 28).

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 31 High 33° · 32 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sun 1 High 36° · 31 % · 35 km/h
  3. Mon 2 High 33° · 39 % · 32 km/h
  4. Tue 3 High 34° · 37 % · 31 km/h
  5. Wed 4 High 35° · 35 % · 39 km/h
  6. Thu 5 High 36° · 34 % · 38 km/h
  7. Fri 6 High 40° · 24 % · 40 km/h
  8. Sat 7 High 40° · 26 % · 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

22,411
hectares burned
3.2 %
of its area
6
fires
6,993
km²

How many times has Magude burned?

Magude has burned 6 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Magude fire, September 2026, with 3,341 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 22,411 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 20,896 hectares, 3.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
3
years with fire
22,411
cumulative ha
20,896
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 Magude

  1. 3,341 ha Magude fire, September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,336 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 0 ha Massingir fire, September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 5,670 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 7,089 ha Magude fire, September 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 7,076 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 3,207 ha Magude fire, July 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,282 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 4,757 ha Magude fire, 25 September 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,740 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 4,018 ha Magude fire, 16 September 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,836 ha in total · 5 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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