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Wildfires in Moma

Moma, Mozambique, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 62,896 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 27).

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 31 High 31° · 34 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sun 1 High 33° · 34 % · 40 km/h
  3. Mon 2 High 35° · 37 % · 47 km/h
  4. Tue 3 High 36° · 38 % · 46 km/h
  5. Wed 4 High 35° · 36 % · 49 km/h
  6. Thu 5 High 36° · 34 % · 46 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very high 38° · 28 % · 47 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very high 39° · 39 % · 53 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

62,896
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
22
fires
3,932
km²

How many times has Moma burned?

Moma has burned 22 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mogovolas fire, 9 October 2026, with 555 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 62,896 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 53,057 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 3× 26
22
fires
9
years with fire
62,896
cumulative ha
53,057
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 Moma

  1. 555 ha Mogovolas fire, 9 October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 14,502 ha in total · 23 days
  2. 1,808 ha Moma fire, October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,413 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 1,159 ha Larde fire, 30 August 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 4,538 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 4,214 ha Moma fire, 17 September 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,294 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 3,455 ha Larde fire, 4 September 2025 0.9% of the municipality · 8,159 ha in total · 27 days
  6. 1,530 ha Moma fire, 2 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,499 ha in total · 22 days
  7. 3,628 ha Moma fire, September 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,614 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 391 ha Larde fire, 10 September 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 7,986 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 5,040 ha Moma fire, 21 October 2022 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 5,006 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 8,319 ha Moma fire, 20 October 2022 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 8,584 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 3,085 ha Moma fire, 1 October 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,074 ha in total · 16 days
  12. 3,216 ha Moma fire, October 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,196 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 5 ha Larde fire, September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,028 ha in total · 16 days
  14. 482 ha Larde fire, 15 October 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 3,661 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 4,223 ha Moma fire, 24 October 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,197 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 4,399 ha Moma fire, 2 October 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,372 ha in total · 17 days
  17. 3,203 ha Moma fire, 21 September 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,186 ha in total · 17 days
  18. 3,146 ha Moma fire, 15 September 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,134 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 3,761 ha Moma fire, 22 September 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,737 ha in total · 18 days
  20. 3,352 ha Moma fire, 22 September 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,339 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 3,443 ha Moma fire, 5 September 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,431 ha in total · 14 days
  22. 482 ha Larde fire, August 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 3,049 ha in total · 6 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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