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Wildfires in Meconta

Meconta, Mozambique, has had 33 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 85,921 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 23% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 32).

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. Sun 25 High 35° · 34 % · 43 km/h
  2. Mon 26 High 35° · 33 % · 36 km/h
  3. Tue 27 High 36° · 37 % · 35 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very high 38° · 25 % · 46 km/h
  5. Thu 29 High 36° · 30 % · 30 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Low 32° · 54 % · 40 km/h
  7. Sat 31 High 32° · 35 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sun 1 High 31° · 38 % · 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

85,921
hectares burned
23 %
of its area
33
fires
3,699
km²

How many times has Meconta burned?

Meconta has burned 33 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Meconta fire, 5 October 2026, with 3,276 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 85,921 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 57,696 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 5× 22
  8.   23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 5× 26
33
fires
10
years with fire
85,921
cumulative ha
57,696
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 Meconta

  1. 2,842 ha Meconta fire, 16 October 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 3,276 ha Meconta fire, 5 October 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,256 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 12 ha Monapo fire, 5 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,222 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 782 ha Mogovolas fire, 28 September 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 7,972 ha in total · 24 days
  5. 23 ha Mogovolas fire, 10 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 6,826 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 3,192 ha Meconta fire, September 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,171 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 0 ha Liúpo fire, 24 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,333 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 6,794 ha Meconta fire, September 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 6,750 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 3,505 ha Meconta fire, 15 September 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,621 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 3,413 ha Monapo fire, September 2024 0.9% of the municipality · 3,977 ha in total · 18 days
  11. 152 ha Mogovolas fire, 11 September 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 24,027 ha in total · 19 days
  12. 7,672 ha Meconta fire, 10 September 2024 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 7,622 ha in total · 19 days
  13. 863 ha Mogovolas fire, 8 September 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 7,599 ha in total · 22 days
  14. 3,901 ha Meconta fire, 30 September 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,459 ha in total · 20 days
  15. 462 ha Mogovolas fire, September 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 7,011 ha in total · 22 days
  16. 1 ha Rapale fire, 26 September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,142 ha in total · 15 days
  17. 391 ha Liúpo fire, 23 September 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 7,822 ha in total · 23 days
  18. 5,056 ha Meconta fire, 18 September 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,021 ha in total · 13 days
  19. 1,678 ha Mogovolas fire, 13 October 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 5,641 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 3,230 ha Meconta fire, September 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,209 ha in total · 16 days
  21. 39 ha Mogovolas fire, September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 5,865 ha in total · 18 days
  22. 957 ha Mogovolas fire, 26 August 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 8,187 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 2,490 ha Rapale fire, 24 August 2020 0.7% of the municipality · 3,055 ha in total · 10 days
  24. 13,736 ha Meconta fire, August 2020 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 13,642 ha in total · 10 days
  25. 2,650 ha Meconta fire, 28 October 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,099 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 3,827 ha Meconta fire, 21 October 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,807 ha in total · 12 days
  27. 66 ha Meconta fire, 29 September 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 5,702 ha in total · 4 days
  28. 5,660 ha Meconta fire, 9 September 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 5,620 ha in total · 14 days
  29. 446 ha Meconta fire, October 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 4,209 ha in total · 13 days
  30. 504 ha Mogovolas fire, October 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 5,062 ha in total · 9 days
  31. 3,540 ha Meconta fire, 19 September 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,515 ha in total · 11 days
  32. 3,033 ha Meconta fire, 14 September 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,011 ha in total · 11 days
  33. 96 ha Mogovolas fire, 20 October 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,547 ha in total · 6 days
  34. 4,475 ha Meconta fire, September 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,444 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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