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Wildfires in Mopeia

Mopeia, Mozambique, has had 44 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 213,199 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% 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. Tue 3 High 35° · 31 % · 41 km/h
  2. Wed 4 High 36° · 34 % · 44 km/h
  3. Thu 5 High 35° · 36 % · 40 km/h
  4. Fri 6 High 37° · 34 % · 34 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very high 42° · 20 % · 40 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very high 43° · 19 % · 49 km/h
  7. Mon 9 High 38° · 39 % · 49 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Low 33° · 59 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

213,199
hectares burned
28 %
of its area
44
fires
7,696
km²

How many times has Mopeia burned?

Mopeia has burned 44 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mopeia fire, 14 October 2026, with 4,294 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 11× 25
  11. 23× 26
44
fires
7
years with fire
213,199
cumulative ha
14 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 Mopeia

  1. 4,294 ha Mopeia fire, 14 October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,276 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 3 ha Chinde fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,130 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 5,584 ha Mopeia fire, 8 October 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,549 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 3,006 ha Mopeia fire, 11 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,163 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 9,756 ha Mopeia fire, 11 September 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 9,705 ha in total · 18 days
  6. 4,916 ha Mopeia fire, 11 September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,894 ha in total · 16 days
  7. 5,439 ha Mopeia fire, 11 September 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,416 ha in total · 18 days
  8. 3,475 ha Mopeia fire, 10 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,460 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 161 ha Morrumbala fire, 6 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 18,281 ha in total · 24 days
  10. 902 ha Nicoadala fire, 4 September 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 35,252 ha in total · 26 days
  11. 3,195 ha Mopeia fire, 31 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,181 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 3,083 ha Mopeia fire, 30 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,069 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 3,670 ha Mopeia fire, 21 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,656 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 20,907 ha Mopeia fire, 17 August 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 21,269 ha in total · 22 days
  15. 6,236 ha Chinde fire, 15 August 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 30,748 ha in total · 24 days
  16. 11,545 ha Mopeia fire, 15 August 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 15,043 ha in total · 24 days
  17. 4,235 ha Mopeia fire, 15 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,207 ha in total · 20 days
  18. 2,253 ha Mopeia fire, 4 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,428 ha in total · 8 days
  19. 3,266 ha Mopeia fire, 4 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,244 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 4,468 ha Mopeia fire, 3 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,643 ha in total · 9 days
  21. 4,237 ha Mopeia fire, 3 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,211 ha in total · 9 days
  22. 3,198 ha Mopeia fire, 3 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,176 ha in total · 9 days
  23. 6,738 ha Mopeia fire, July 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 6,696 ha in total · 15 days
  24. 7,361 ha Nicoadala fire, October 2025 1.0% of the municipality · 15,140 ha in total · 28 days
  25. 263 ha Nicoadala fire, 21 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,448 ha in total · 29 days
  26. 67 ha Chinde fire, 12 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,626 ha in total · 24 days
  27. 3,110 ha Mopeia fire, 12 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,096 ha in total · 13 days
  28. 4,434 ha Mopeia fire, 12 September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,406 ha in total · 18 days
  29. 2,727 ha Mopeia fire, 11 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,122 ha in total · 22 days
  30. 4,455 ha Mopeia fire, 6 September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,425 ha in total · 28 days
  31. 35 ha Nicoadala fire, 4 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 6,412 ha in total · 24 days
  32. 3,879 ha Mopeia fire, 4 September 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,854 ha in total · 29 days
  33. 7,683 ha Mopeia fire, 4 September 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 9,207 ha in total · 31 days
  34. 9,088 ha Mopeia fire, 2 September 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 9,031 ha in total · 28 days
  35. 3,804 ha Mopeia fire, August 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,778 ha in total · 15 days
  36. 3,435 ha Mopeia fire, October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,384 ha in total · 19 days
  37. 4,162 ha Mopeia fire, September 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,146 ha in total · 20 days
  38. 11,119 ha Mopeia fire, 1 December 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 11,051 ha in total · 17 days
  39. 5,154 ha Mopeia fire, 1 December 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,125 ha in total · 17 days
  40. 4,349 ha Mopeia fire, November 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,323 ha in total · 5 days
  41. 177 ha Nicoadala fire, 4 October 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,660 ha in total · 7 days
  42. 5,794 ha Mopeia fire, October 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,760 ha in total · 28 days
  43. 10,987 ha Mopeia fire, August 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 11,558 ha in total · 42 days
  44. 6,550 ha Nicoadala fire, July 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 8,632 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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