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Wildfires in Muecate

Muecate, Mozambique, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 68,342 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 34).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 1 High 32° · 30 % · 46 km/h
  2. Mon 2 High 34° · 27 % · 49 km/h
  3. Tue 3 High 34° · 32 % · 36 km/h
  4. Wed 4 High 34° · 33 % · 33 km/h
  5. Thu 5 High 34° · 36 % · 36 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very high 36° · 24 % · 41 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very high 36° · 33 % · 41 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very high 37° · 27 % · 43 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

68,342
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
23
fires
4,131
km²

How many times has Muecate burned?

Muecate has burned 23 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Monapo fire, 13 October 2026, with 1,221 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 68,342 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 60,716 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 13× 26
23
fires
7
years with fire
68,342
cumulative ha
60,716
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 Muecate

  1. 14 ha Meconta fire, 23 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 1,221 ha Monapo fire, 13 October 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 4,101 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 3,797 ha Muecate fire, 5 October 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,772 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 3,304 ha Muecate fire, 5 October 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,282 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 3,153 ha Muecate fire, 5 October 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,136 ha in total · 19 days
  6. 5,403 ha Muecate fire, 5 October 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 5,371 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 4,316 ha Muecate fire, 5 October 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,291 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 3,672 ha Muecate fire, 4 October 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,654 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 4,259 ha Muecate fire, 3 October 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,237 ha in total · 20 days
  10. 3,390 ha Muecate fire, 3 October 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,369 ha in total · 20 days
  11. 3,519 ha Muecate fire, 27 September 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,500 ha in total · 25 days
  12. 1,455 ha Mecubúri fire, 2 September 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 3,459 ha in total · 24 days
  13. 1,979 ha Muecate fire, September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,397 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 753 ha Muecate fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,053 ha in total · 21 days
  15. 3,299 ha Muecate fire, October 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,279 ha in total · 20 days
  16. 3,335 ha Mecubúri fire, 3 September 2025 0.8% of the municipality · 14,953 ha in total · 28 days
  17. 3,607 ha Muecate fire, 9 September 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,587 ha in total · 17 days
  18. 1,733 ha Muecate fire, 8 September 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,400 ha in total · 14 days
  19. 2,134 ha Mecubúri fire, 7 September 2024 0.5% of the municipality · 3,132 ha in total · 22 days
  20. 2,142 ha Mecubúri fire, 1 October 2022 0.5% of the municipality · 6,758 ha in total · 13 days
  21. 3,326 ha Muecate fire, 25 August 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,307 ha in total · 15 days
  22. 3,574 ha Muecate fire, 25 August 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,553 ha in total · 15 days
  23. 1,471 ha Meconta fire, 28 October 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 4,099 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 3,500 ha Muecate fire, October 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,481 ha in total · 15 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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