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Wildfires in Manica

Manica, Mozambique, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 9,018 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.5% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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. Thu 5 Moderate 31° · 38 % · 25 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Moderate 32° · 34 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Moderate 34° · 29 % · 29 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Moderate 34° · 33 % · 28 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very low 27° · 58 % · 34 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 39 % · 30 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Moderate 31° · 32 % · 35 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Moderate 30° · 29 % · 31 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Manica: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

9,018
hectares burned
3.5 %
of its area
7
fires
2,547
km²

How many times has Manica burned?

Manica has burned 7 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Manica fire, October 2026, with 2,822 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,018 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,861 hectares, 2.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
7
fires
6
years with fire
9,018
cumulative ha
6,861
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 Manica

  1. 2,822 ha Manica fire, October 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,310 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 295 ha Bárue fire, 11 September 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 9,318 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 3,623 ha Bárue fire, 2 September 2025 1.4% of the municipality · 14,689 ha in total · 31 days
  4. 57 ha Bárue fire, 20 September 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 4,506 ha in total · 22 days
  5. 1,760 ha Bárue fire, 6 October 2021 0.7% of the municipality · 3,601 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 457 ha Bárue fire, September 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 5,195 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 3 ha Bárue fire, 9 September 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 4,220 ha in total · 18 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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