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Wildfires in Mecubúri

Mecubúri, Mozambique, has had 45 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 159,289 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% 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.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 30 High 32° · 30 % · 38 km/h
  2. Sat 31 High 32° · 29 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 1 High 33° · 27 % · 28 km/h
  4. Mon 2 High 33° · 32 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 3 High 34° · 31 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very high 35° · 32 % · 40 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very high 34° · 27 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very high 36° · 23 % · 45 km/h
  9. Sat 7 Very high 36° · 28 % · 43 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

159,289
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
45
fires
7,233
km²

How many times has Mecubúri burned?

Mecubúri has burned 45 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mecubúri fire, 5 October 2026, with 3,096 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 159,289 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 124,161 hectares, 17 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8.   23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 10× 25
  11. 13× 26
45
fires
10
years with fire
159,289
cumulative ha
124,161
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 Mecubúri

  1. 3,096 ha Mecubúri fire, 5 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,075 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 3,265 ha Mecubúri fire, 5 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,246 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 3,580 ha Mecubúri fire, 5 October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,557 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 3,054 ha Mecubúri fire, 11 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,031 ha in total · 20 days
  5. 3,042 ha Mecubúri fire, 10 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,289 ha in total · 18 days
  6. 2,028 ha Mecubúri fire, 2 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,459 ha in total · 24 days
  7. 1,437 ha Muecate fire, September 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,397 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 2,320 ha Muecate fire, August 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 3,053 ha in total · 21 days
  9. 4,017 ha Mecubúri fire, 16 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,994 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 2,593 ha Ribaué fire, 14 August 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 8,950 ha in total · 22 days
  11. 3,911 ha Mecubúri fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,890 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 4,093 ha Mecubúri fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,072 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 4,394 ha Mecubúri fire, July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,376 ha in total · 24 days
  14. 2,072 ha Mecubúri fire, 11 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,929 ha in total · 23 days
  15. 4,862 ha Mecubúri fire, 9 September 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,830 ha in total · 21 days
  16. 11,721 ha Mecubúri fire, 3 September 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 14,953 ha in total · 28 days
  17. 209 ha Lalaua fire, 2 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 4,162 ha in total · 17 days
  18. 0 ha Eráti fire, August 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,120 ha in total · 18 days
  19. 3,496 ha Mecubúri fire, 21 August 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,476 ha in total · 15 days
  20. 3,190 ha Mecubúri fire, 21 August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,172 ha in total · 12 days
  21. 3,667 ha Mecubúri fire, 20 August 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,647 ha in total · 14 days
  22. 1,566 ha Mecubúri fire, 18 August 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,602 ha in total · 14 days
  23. 3,864 ha Mecubúri fire, 16 August 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,844 ha in total · 12 days
  24. 3,325 ha Mecubúri fire, 13 September 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,303 ha in total · 8 days
  25. 2,697 ha Muecate fire, 8 September 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 4,400 ha in total · 14 days
  26. 1,017 ha Mecubúri fire, 7 September 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,132 ha in total · 22 days
  27. 3,219 ha Mecubúri fire, 7 September 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,218 ha in total · 14 days
  28. 3,490 ha Mecubúri fire, 5 October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,559 ha in total · 11 days
  29. 4,010 ha Mecubúri fire, 5 October 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,980 ha in total · 11 days
  30. 4,662 ha Mecubúri fire, 1 October 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,758 ha in total · 13 days
  31. 4,407 ha Mecubúri fire, September 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,375 ha in total · 20 days
  32. 3,601 ha Mecubúri fire, 26 August 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,574 ha in total · 8 days
  33. 6,364 ha Mecubúri fire, 24 August 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 6,320 ha in total · 16 days
  34. 3,552 ha Mecubúri fire, 19 September 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,528 ha in total · 6 days
  35. 3,091 ha Mecubúri fire, 12 September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,069 ha in total · 13 days
  36. 85 ha Lalaua fire, September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 4,230 ha in total · 13 days
  37. 3,181 ha Mecubúri fire, 6 September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,159 ha in total · 18 days
  38. 5,254 ha Mecubúri fire, 1 September 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,217 ha in total · 22 days
  39. 3,433 ha Mecubúri fire, 23 August 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,418 ha in total · 13 days
  40. 3,541 ha Mecubúri fire, 22 August 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,522 ha in total · 14 days
  41. 4,606 ha Mecubúri fire, 18 August 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,582 ha in total · 19 days
  42. 7,227 ha Mecubúri fire, 12 August 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 7,189 ha in total · 14 days
  43. 4,999 ha Mecubúri fire, 9 August 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,973 ha in total · 11 days
  44. 3,172 ha Mecubúri fire, 9 August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,158 ha in total · 16 days
  45. 4,878 ha Mecubúri fire, 1 August 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,855 ha in total · 9 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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