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Wildfires in Mandimba

Mandimba, Mozambique, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 38,955 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 43).

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 Very high 35° · 21 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 33° · 26 % · 41 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very high 36° · 17 % · 36 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 35° · 27 % · 37 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 37° · 23 % · 49 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 35° · 28 % · 40 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 31° · 33 % · 39 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 31° · 31 % · 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

38,955
hectares burned
8.3 %
of its area
11
fires
4,707
km²

How many times has Mandimba burned?

Mandimba has burned 11 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mandimba fire, October 2026, with 5,008 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 38,955 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 36,602 hectares, 7.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 7× 26
11
fires
2
years with fire
38,955
cumulative ha
36,602
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 Mandimba

  1. 5,008 ha Mandimba fire, October 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,986 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 4,638 ha Mandimba fire, 6 September 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,640 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 5,721 ha Mandimba fire, 4 September 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,695 ha in total · 24 days
  4. 4,634 ha Mandimba fire, 3 September 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,610 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 1,034 ha Ngauma fire, 3 September 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 7,892 ha in total · 24 days
  6. 3,481 ha Cuamba fire, 22 August 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 61,192 ha in total · 40 days
  7. 3,262 ha Mandimba fire, August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,242 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 2,694 ha Mandimba fire, 10 September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,031 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 5,391 ha Mandimba fire, 7 September 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,364 ha in total · 19 days
  10. 223 ha Ngauma fire, 1 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,427 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 2,870 ha Mandimba fire, August 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,807 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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