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Wildfires in Matutuíne

Matutuíne, Mozambique, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 20,087 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.7% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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. Tue 3 Low 32° · 45 % · 35 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Low 32° · 49 % · 38 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Moderate 34° · 48 % · 42 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Moderate 38° · 38 % · 43 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Low 30° · 58 % · 38 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 23° · 82 % · 64 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 24° · 58 % · 56 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 44 % · 40 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

20,087
hectares burned
3.7 %
of its area
5
fires
5,368
km²

How many times has Matutuíne burned?

Matutuíne has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2018 and 2019. The most recent: Matutuíne fire, 22 July 2019, with 3,451 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 20,087 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,144 hectares, 3.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
20,087
cumulative ha
18,144
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 Matutuíne

  1. 3,451 ha Matutuíne fire, 22 July 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,440 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 6,523 ha Matutuíne fire, 5 July 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 6,499 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 3,045 ha Matutuíne fire, September 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,034 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 3,354 ha Matutuíne fire, August 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,347 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 3,714 ha Matutuíne fire, June 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,702 ha in total · 4 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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