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Wildfires in Moamba

Moamba, Mozambique, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 19,289 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.2% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 21).

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 23 High 30° · 41 % · 49 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 32° · 34 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 34° · 34 % · 38 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 37° · 28 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 40° · 18 % · 60 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 30° · 30 % · 57 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 30° · 33 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 28° · 36 % · 37 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

19,289
hectares burned
4.2 %
of its area
5
fires
4,600
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Moamba

  1. 5,752 ha Moamba fire, October 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,744 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,986 ha Moamba fire, June 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,878 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 3,186 ha Moamba fire, August 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,184 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 4,193 ha Moamba fire, August 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,181 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 3,172 ha Moamba fire, October 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,151 ha in total · 2 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).