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Wildfires in Muembe

Muembe, Mozambique, has had 26 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 147,869 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 25% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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 29 High 33° · 30 % · 25 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 46 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Low 29° · 41 % · 24 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Low 28° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Low 31° · 41 % · 31 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Moderate 31° · 47 % · 32 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Moderate 33° · 32 % · 30 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Moderate 33° · 35 % · 33 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

147,869
hectares burned
25 %
of its area
26
fires
5,838
km²

How many times has Muembe burned?

Muembe has burned 26 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Muembe fire, 16 October 2026, with 5,288 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 147,869 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 95,977 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 6× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 7× 25
  11. 6× 26
26
fires
7
years with fire
147,869
cumulative ha
95,977
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 Muembe

  1. 5,288 ha Muembe fire, 16 October 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,763 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 9,044 ha Muembe fire, 14 October 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 8,990 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 3,298 ha Muembe fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,277 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 124 ha Sanga fire, 13 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 35,845 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 59,099 ha Muembe fire, 5 October 2026 where it started 10% of the municipality · 71,529 ha in total · 26 days
  6. 183 ha Sanga fire, 4 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,173 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 3,005 ha Muembe fire, 6 October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,189 ha in total · 30 days
  8. 9,492 ha Muembe fire, 4 October 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 9,424 ha in total · 34 days
  9. 2,825 ha Sanga fire, 26 September 2025 0.5% of the municipality · 6,318 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 7,699 ha Muembe fire, September 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 7,669 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 1,263 ha Majune fire, 5 September 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 4,795 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 2,299 ha Mavago fire, 4 September 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 3,863 ha in total · 18 days
  13. 12 ha Majune fire, 3 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,458 ha in total · 12 days
  14. 97 ha Chimbonila fire, 7 October 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,671 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 11,322 ha Muembe fire, October 2022 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 11,239 ha in total · 39 days
  16. 81 ha Sanga fire, 24 September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 6,721 ha in total · 19 days
  17. 763 ha Chimbonila fire, September 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 3,557 ha in total · 26 days
  18. 3,164 ha Muembe fire, 26 October 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,148 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 52 ha Majune fire, October 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 9,690 ha in total · 10 days
  20. 3,979 ha Muembe fire, 21 October 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,950 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 4,100 ha Muembe fire, 19 October 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,130 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 3,106 ha Muembe fire, 17 October 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,084 ha in total · 10 days
  23. 120 ha Majune fire, 15 October 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 4,716 ha in total · 12 days
  24. 8,598 ha Muembe fire, 11 October 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 8,557 ha in total · 18 days
  25. 3,076 ha Muembe fire, 7 October 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,059 ha in total · 14 days
  26. 5,779 ha Muembe fire, 7 October 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,736 ha in total · 21 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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