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Wildfires in Montepuez

Montepuez, Mozambique, has had 39 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 133,904 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.5% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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. Thu 12 High 35° · 33 % · 42 km/h
  2. Fri 13 High 35° · 33 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sat 14 High 35° · 37 % · 33 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Very low 32° · 52 % · 40 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Very low 32° · 47 % · 32 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Low 32° · 45 % · 31 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Moderate 33° · 53 % · 47 km/h
  8. Thu 19 Very low 32° · 57 % · 28 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 Montepuez: hourly forecast Today, 7 µg/m³ of PM2.5 (×0.4 the WHO guideline)

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

133,904
hectares burned
7.5 %
of its area
39
fires
17,912
km²

How many times has Montepuez burned?

Montepuez has burned 39 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Montepuez fire, October 2026, with 3,323 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 133,904 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 122,253 hectares, 6.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 6× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 9× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 12× 26
39
fires
7
years with fire
133,904
cumulative ha
122,253
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 Montepuez

  1. 3,323 ha Montepuez fire, October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,307 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 3,459 ha Mueda fire, September 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 4,575 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 3,314 ha Montepuez fire, 11 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,290 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 3,803 ha Montepuez fire, 4 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,785 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 2,325 ha Namuno fire, 22 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 4,811 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 5,514 ha Marrupa fire, 21 August 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 17,414 ha in total · 21 days
  7. 13,332 ha Montepuez fire, 20 August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 13,270 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 4,156 ha Montepuez fire, 16 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,596 ha in total · 30 days
  9. 3,100 ha Montepuez fire, 11 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,087 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 1,415 ha Balama fire, 10 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 5,516 ha in total · 24 days
  11. 37 ha Namuno fire, 6 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,656 ha in total · 21 days
  12. 1,298 ha Montepuez fire, 1 August 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,300 ha in total · 15 days
  13. 2,580 ha Montepuez fire, 21 August 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,320 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 5,039 ha Montepuez fire, 19 August 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,003 ha in total · 15 days
  15. 4,326 ha Montepuez fire, September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,308 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 3,645 ha Montepuez fire, 6 August 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,088 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 3,849 ha Montepuez fire, 3 August 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,158 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 39 ha Marrupa fire, 14 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 3,049 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 3,036 ha Montepuez fire, September 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,014 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 312 ha Namuno fire, September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 3,539 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 4,207 ha Montepuez fire, 22 August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,180 ha in total · 13 days
  22. 5,751 ha Montepuez fire, 18 August 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,718 ha in total · 10 days
  23. 3,488 ha Marrupa fire, 16 August 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 7,052 ha in total · 12 days
  24. 3,018 ha Montepuez fire, 15 August 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,000 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 1,981 ha Namuno fire, August 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 3,773 ha in total · 17 days
  26. 73 ha Balama fire, 2 August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 8,844 ha in total · 14 days
  27. 7,302 ha Montepuez fire, October 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,256 ha in total · 13 days
  28. 11,802 ha Montepuez fire, 9 August 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 11,732 ha in total · 11 days
  29. 3,223 ha Montepuez fire, 1 August 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,205 ha in total · 8 days
  30. 6,020 ha Montepuez fire, July 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 5,981 ha in total · 11 days
  31. 3,136 ha Montepuez fire, September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,119 ha in total · 8 days
  32. 521 ha Namuno fire, September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,349 ha in total · 14 days
  33. 223 ha Montepuez fire, August 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,541 ha in total · 8 days
  34. 3,071 ha Montepuez fire, 16 August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,053 ha in total · 9 days
  35. 3,209 ha Montepuez fire, 15 August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,183 ha in total · 10 days
  36. 170 ha Marrupa fire, 10 August 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,931 ha in total · 10 days
  37. 807 ha Balama fire, 9 August 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 7,152 ha in total · 14 days
  38. 4,014 ha Montepuez fire, 29 July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,998 ha in total · 8 days
  39. 3,988 ha Montepuez fire, 19 July 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,969 ha in total · 5 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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