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Wildfires in Maquival

Maquival, Mozambique, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 1,779 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.9% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 23).

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. Mon 2 Moderate 31° · 44 % · 41 km/h
  2. Tue 3 High 33° · 45 % · 43 km/h
  3. Wed 4 High 32° · 49 % · 41 km/h
  4. Thu 5 High 31° · 47 % · 41 km/h
  5. Fri 6 High 34° · 48 % · 42 km/h
  6. Sat 7 High 40° · 28 % · 49 km/h
  7. Sun 8 High 39° · 29 % · 44 km/h
  8. Mon 9 High 34° · 50 % · 57 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

1,779
hectares burned
2.9 %
of its area
2
fires
621
km²

How many times has Maquival burned?

Maquival has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Maquival fire, August 2026, with 1,579 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,779 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,609 hectares, 2.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
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  4.   19
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  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
1,779
cumulative ha
1,609
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 Maquival

  1. 1,579 ha Maquival fire, August 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 3,319 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 200 ha Namacurra fire, 8 September 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 4,645 ha in total · 29 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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