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Wildfires in Massangena

Massangena, Mozambique, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 34,601 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.6% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 31).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 11 High 32° · 32 % · 28 km/h
  2. Thu 12 High 33° · 36 % · 35 km/h
  3. Fri 13 High 33° · 34 % · 27 km/h
  4. Sat 14 High 35° · 29 % · 36 km/h
  5. Sun 15 High 34° · 36 % · 26 km/h
  6. Mon 16 High 35° · 38 % · 36 km/h
  7. Tue 17 High 33° · 46 % · 52 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Moderate 32° · 35 % · 44 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 Massangena: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

34,601
hectares burned
4.6 %
of its area
11
fires
7,584
km²

How many times has Massangena burned?

Massangena has burned 11 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Massangena fire, October 2026, with 13,660 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 34,601 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 30,409 hectares, 4.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 4× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 4× 26
11
fires
4
years with fire
34,601
cumulative ha
30,409
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 Massangena

  1. 13,660 ha Massangena fire, October 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 13,653 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 966 ha Mapai fire, 31 October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 2,012 ha Massangena fire, 30 October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,779 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 138 ha Mapai fire, 22 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,415 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 3,098 ha Massangena fire, 19 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,305 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 3,240 ha Massangena fire, October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,222 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,591 ha Chigubo fire, October 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 6,854 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 103 ha Mapai fire, 27 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,229 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 3,501 ha Massangena fire, August 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,478 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 2,537 ha Massangena fire, 9 July 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,392 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 3,550 ha Massangena fire, 3 July 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,526 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 1,169 ha Chigubo fire, 6 October 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 3,169 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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