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Wildfires in Mogovolas

Mogovolas, Mozambique, has had 47 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 242,768 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 51% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 50).

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. Sun 8 Extreme 39° · 19 % · 50 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Extreme 38° · 26 % · 38 km/h
  3. Tue 10 High 34° · 39 % · 35 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Moderate 36° · 28 % · 39 km/h
  5. Thu 12 High 36° · 34 % · 42 km/h
  6. Fri 13 High 37° · 33 % · 47 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 35° · 44 % · 51 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very low 34° · 65 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Mogovolas: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

242,768
hectares burned
51 %
of its area
47
fires
4,739
km²

How many times has Mogovolas burned?

Mogovolas has burned 47 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mogovolas fire, 9 October 2026, with 6,652 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 5× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 7× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 7× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 6× 26
47
fires
11
years with fire
242,768
cumulative ha
9 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 Mogovolas

  1. 6,652 ha Mogovolas fire, 9 October 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 14,502 ha in total · 29 days
  2. 15,981 ha Mogovolas fire, 5 October 2026 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 15,487 ha in total · 31 days
  3. 7,235 ha Mogovolas fire, 28 September 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 7,972 ha in total · 24 days
  4. 76 ha Liúpo fire, 11 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 7,457 ha in total · 9 days
  5. 5,062 ha Mogovolas fire, 10 September 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,826 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 47,829 ha Mogovolas fire, 1 September 2026 where it started 10% of the municipality · 51,626 ha in total · 29 days
  7. 270 ha Liúpo fire, 24 October 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 3,333 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 5,959 ha Rapale fire, 25 September 2025 1.3% of the municipality · 7,722 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 97 ha Moma fire, 17 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 4,294 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 3,755 ha Mogovolas fire, 29 September 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,733 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 3,352 ha Mogovolas fire, 28 September 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,333 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 4,442 ha Mogovolas fire, 27 September 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,483 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 2,749 ha Mogovolas fire, 17 September 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,642 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 19,982 ha Mogovolas fire, 11 September 2024 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 24,027 ha in total · 19 days
  15. 6,777 ha Mogovolas fire, 8 September 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 7,599 ha in total · 22 days
  16. 3 ha Liúpo fire, August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 4,275 ha in total · 11 days
  17. 42 ha Angoche fire, September 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 4,492 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 3,192 ha Mogovolas fire, 26 November 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,171 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 3,250 ha Mogovolas fire, 3 November 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,231 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 299 ha Moma fire, 20 October 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 8,584 ha in total · 9 days
  21. 41 ha Liúpo fire, 7 October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,255 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 1,595 ha Meconta fire, October 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 5,459 ha in total · 12 days
  23. 7,881 ha Mogovolas fire, October 2022 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 7,845 ha in total · 13 days
  24. 6,584 ha Mogovolas fire, September 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 7,011 ha in total · 22 days
  25. 3,982 ha Mogovolas fire, 13 October 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,641 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 3,484 ha Mogovolas fire, 4 October 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,468 ha in total · 8 days
  27. 5,334 ha Mogovolas fire, 18 October 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,298 ha in total · 8 days
  28. 3,480 ha Mogovolas fire, 13 October 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,160 ha in total · 15 days
  29. 4,670 ha Mogovolas fire, September 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,865 ha in total · 18 days
  30. 5,999 ha Mogovolas fire, 26 August 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 8,187 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 7,448 ha Mogovolas fire, 18 August 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 9,645 ha in total · 14 days
  32. 5,202 ha Mogovolas fire, October 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,178 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 5,663 ha Meconta fire, 29 September 2019 1.2% of the municipality · 5,702 ha in total · 4 days
  34. 3,210 ha Mogovolas fire, September 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,035 ha in total · 9 days
  35. 360 ha Murrupula fire, 22 September 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 3,364 ha in total · 10 days
  36. 3,786 ha Meconta fire, October 2018 0.8% of the municipality · 4,209 ha in total · 13 days
  37. 4,585 ha Mogovolas fire, October 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,062 ha in total · 9 days
  38. 31 ha Murrupula fire, 27 September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 3,374 ha in total · 10 days
  39. 527 ha Liúpo fire, 26 September 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 5,287 ha in total · 5 days
  40. 1,192 ha Murrupula fire, 25 September 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 3,508 ha in total · 10 days
  41. 927 ha Mogovolas fire, October 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,637 ha in total · 7 days
  42. 4,803 ha Mogovolas fire, September 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,784 ha in total · 10 days
  43. 6,711 ha Mogovolas fire, 30 October 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 6,684 ha in total · 4 days
  44. 11,620 ha Mogovolas fire, 23 October 2016 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 11,555 ha in total · 12 days
  45. 3,347 ha Mogovolas fire, 20 October 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,547 ha in total · 6 days
  46. 3,300 ha Mogovolas fire, September 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,286 ha in total · 6 days
  47. 2 ha Liúpo fire, 23 September 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 7,604 ha in total · 11 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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