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Wildfires in Molumbo

Molumbo, Mozambique, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 75,725 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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. Sat 24 High 32° · 37 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 31° · 40 % · 36 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 34° · 20 % · 34 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 35° · 25 % · 31 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 26 % · 47 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 61 % · 39 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 27° · 38 % · 40 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 29° · 33 % · 39 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

75,725
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
22
fires
4,344
km²

How many times has Molumbo burned?

Molumbo has burned 22 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Molumbo fire, August 2026, with 5,575 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 5× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 4× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 4× 26
22
fires
7
years with fire
75,725
cumulative ha
16 Aug 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 Molumbo

  1. 5,575 ha Molumbo fire, August 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 5,540 ha in total · 17 days
  2. 4,129 ha Namarrói fire, 16 August 2026 1.0% of the municipality · 219,876 ha in total · 44 days
  3. 13,331 ha Lugela fire, 10 August 2026 3.1% of the municipality · 74,073 ha in total · 36 days
  4. 1,032 ha Gurué fire, 9 August 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,640 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 927 ha Namarrói fire, 4 September 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 49,802 ha in total · 26 days
  6. 5,130 ha Molumbo fire, September 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,102 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 5 ha Lugela fire, 3 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 188,911 ha in total · 64 days
  8. 13 ha Lugela fire, 4 October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,005 ha in total · 13 days
  9. 3,800 ha Molumbo fire, October 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,774 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 4,168 ha Molumbo fire, September 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,300 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 668 ha Lugela fire, September 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 173,378 ha in total · 37 days
  12. 3,071 ha Molumbo fire, September 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,388 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 2,740 ha Molumbo fire, August 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,470 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 3,882 ha Molumbo fire, 17 September 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,855 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 3,491 ha Molumbo fire, 16 September 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,813 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 153 ha Namarrói fire, 15 September 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 3,020 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 1,064 ha Lugela fire, 13 September 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 38,001 ha in total · 22 days
  18. 2,417 ha Molumbo fire, 13 September 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,186 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 3,739 ha Molumbo fire, September 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,714 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 14,423 ha Lugela fire, 11 September 2017 3.3% of the municipality · 40,697 ha in total · 18 days
  21. 731 ha Namarrói fire, 11 September 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 77,917 ha in total · 38 days
  22. 1,235 ha Gurué fire, August 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 7,450 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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