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Wildfires in Malema

Malema, Mozambique, has had 34 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 203,408 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 33% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 38).

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. Sun 25 Very high 34° · 29 % · 44 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very high 36° · 20 % · 32 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very high 35° · 23 % · 33 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very high 37° · 23 % · 34 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 36° · 31 % · 47 km/h
  6. Fri 30 High 32° · 33 % · 45 km/h
  7. Sat 31 High 32° · 28 % · 46 km/h
  8. Sun 1 High 31° · 30 % · 41 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

203,408
hectares burned
33 %
of its area
34
fires
6,090
km²

How many times has Malema burned?

Malema has burned 34 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Malema fire, 23 August 2026, with 5,542 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 203,408 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 135,458 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 8× 26
34
fires
11
years with fire
203,408
cumulative ha
135,458
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 Malema

  1. 5,542 ha Malema fire, 23 August 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,508 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 3,951 ha Malema fire, 22 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,928 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 5,512 ha Malema fire, 16 August 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,596 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 3,370 ha Malema fire, 16 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,354 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 3,711 ha Malema fire, 15 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,108 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 10,802 ha Malema fire, 15 August 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 10,736 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 3,829 ha Malema fire, 12 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,805 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 31,719 ha Lalaua fire, 9 August 2026 5.2% of the municipality · 52,509 ha in total · 37 days
  9. 18,844 ha Malema fire, 7 September 2025 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 18,733 ha in total · 23 days
  10. 3,361 ha Malema fire, 4 September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,340 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 3,755 ha Malema fire, 3 September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,732 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 3,131 ha Malema fire, 23 August 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,116 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 29,827 ha Malema fire, 22 August 2025 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 46,127 ha in total · 28 days
  14. 60 ha Lalaua fire, 31 July 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,113 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 3,324 ha Malema fire, July 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,305 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 2,149 ha Gurué fire, October 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 4,388 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 5,860 ha Malema fire, October 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,836 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 4,309 ha Malema fire, August 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,281 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 3,308 ha Malema fire, 29 August 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,289 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 4,272 ha Malema fire, 22 August 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,245 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 2,281 ha Malema fire, September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,355 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 4,890 ha Malema fire, 6 August 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,858 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 3,240 ha Malema fire, 4 August 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,221 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 3,234 ha Malema fire, 3 August 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,216 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 3,054 ha Malema fire, August 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,038 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 3,401 ha Malema fire, 19 August 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,382 ha in total · 8 days
  27. 3,067 ha Malema fire, 10 August 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,048 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 3,666 ha Malema fire, October 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,647 ha in total · 3 days
  29. 3,234 ha Malema fire, 12 September 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,213 ha in total · 7 days
  30. 1,905 ha Malema fire, 9 September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,192 ha in total · 5 days
  31. 5,857 ha Malema fire, August 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,819 ha in total · 7 days
  32. 3,431 ha Malema fire, 23 September 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,412 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 6,895 ha Malema fire, 13 September 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,856 ha in total · 8 days
  34. 4,617 ha Malema fire, 11 September 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,590 ha in total · 7 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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