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Wildfires in Moatize

Moatize, Mozambique, has had 35 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 230,507 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 27% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 57).

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 Extreme 42° · 15 % · 53 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 36° · 28 % · 55 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 34° · 33 % · 50 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 37° · 20 % · 43 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 39° · 17 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very extreme 42° · 14 % · 52 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 34° · 35 % · 48 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 33° · 27 % · 50 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

230,507
hectares burned
27 %
of its area
35
fires
8,479
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Moatize

  1. 49,918 ha Moatize fire, 12 September 2026 where it started 5.9% of the municipality · 67,089 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 5,226 ha Moatize fire, 12 September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,207 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 8,012 ha Moatize fire, 12 September 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 7,966 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 3,795 ha Moatize fire, 11 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,771 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 3,176 ha Moatize fire, 1 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,164 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 2,991 ha Moatize fire, 30 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,713 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 3,440 ha Moatize fire, 30 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,426 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 4,848 ha Moatize fire, 23 September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,827 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 6,170 ha Moatize fire, 14 September 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,225 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 3,208 ha Moatize fire, 14 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,195 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 110 ha Tsangano fire, 14 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,102 ha in total · 11 days
  12. 3,883 ha Moatize fire, September 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,868 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 4,349 ha Moatize fire, September 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,335 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 5,016 ha Moatize fire, 5 October 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,995 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 5,609 ha Moatize fire, 4 October 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,587 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 4,479 ha Moatize fire, 1 October 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,462 ha in total · 12 days
  17. 3,611 ha Moatize fire, September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,876 ha in total · 12 days
  18. 3,848 ha Moatize fire, 14 September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,836 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 7,898 ha Moatize fire, 13 September 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 7,882 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 4,452 ha Moatize fire, 5 September 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,434 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 3,026 ha Moatize fire, 26 September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,015 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 3,235 ha Moatize fire, 15 September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,224 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 5,058 ha Moatize fire, 7 September 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,037 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 3,909 ha Moatize fire, July 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,893 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 4,836 ha Moatize fire, 19 September 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,820 ha in total · 6 days
  26. 4,936 ha Moatize fire, 17 September 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,917 ha in total · 9 days
  27. 9,680 ha Moatize fire, September 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 9,645 ha in total · 10 days
  28. 3,450 ha Moatize fire, 22 September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,437 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 3,057 ha Moatize fire, 22 September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,045 ha in total · 7 days
  30. 8,353 ha Moatize fire, 9 September 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,324 ha in total · 10 days
  31. 12,957 ha Moatize fire, 15 September 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 12,910 ha in total · 15 days
  32. 4,295 ha Moatize fire, 6 September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,361 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 5,335 ha Moatize fire, 5 September 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,314 ha in total · 7 days
  34. 17,406 ha Moatize fire, 5 September 2016 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 17,344 ha in total · 7 days
  35. 6,936 ha Moatize fire, 4 September 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,906 ha in total · 7 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).