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Wildfires in Maúa

Maúa, Mozambique, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 30,658 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 40).

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 27 Very high 36° · 25 % · 32 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 21 % · 30 km/h
  3. Thu 29 High 37° · 23 % · 38 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Moderate 32° · 39 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sat 31 High 34° · 25 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sun 1 High 32° · 32 % · 29 km/h
  7. Mon 2 High 34° · 32 % · 32 km/h
  8. Tue 3 High 35° · 30 % · 30 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

30,658
hectares burned
3.8 %
of its area
8
fires
8,094
km²

How many times has Maúa burned?

Maúa has burned 8 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Maúa fire, October 2026, with 3,369 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 3× 26
8
fires
3
years with fire
30,658
cumulative ha
8 Oct 2026
most recent

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 Maúa

  1. 3,369 ha Maúa fire, October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,349 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 7,535 ha Maúa fire, 31 August 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 7,494 ha in total · 27 days
  3. 3,459 ha Maúa fire, 25 August 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,459 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 2,123 ha Metarica fire, 20 September 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 4,391 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 724 ha Maúa fire, 3 September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,647 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 4,187 ha Maúa fire, 3 September 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,163 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 3,033 ha Maúa fire, 2 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,014 ha in total · 18 days
  8. 6,227 ha Maúa fire, September 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 9,210 ha in total · 17 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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