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Wildfires in Murrupula

Murrupula, Mozambique, has had 66 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 291,744 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 94% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 42).

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. Fri 23 Very high 38° · 17 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 36° · 28 % · 39 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 34° · 33 % · 40 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 34° · 34 % · 43 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 36° · 30 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 38° · 24 % · 48 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 32° · 60 % · 46 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 31° · 32 % · 46 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

291,744
hectares burned
94 %
of its area
66
fires
3,111
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Murrupula

  1. 3,120 ha Murrupula fire, September 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,106 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 2,760 ha Mogovolas fire, 1 September 2026 0.9% of the municipality · 51,629 ha in total · 28 days
  3. 9,532 ha Murrupula fire, August 2026 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 11,028 ha in total · 29 days
  4. 3,616 ha Gilé fire, 22 August 2026 1.2% of the municipality · 19,820 ha in total · 27 days
  5. 2,476 ha Ribaué fire, 21 August 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 6,137 ha in total · 25 days
  6. 87 ha Gilé fire, 19 August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,010 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 5,571 ha Ribaué fire, 18 August 2026 1.8% of the municipality · 26,995 ha in total · 31 days
  8. 9,507 ha Ribaué fire, 16 August 2026 3.1% of the municipality · 145,344 ha in total · 43 days
  9. 224 ha Rapale fire, 25 September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 7,722 ha in total · 15 days
  10. 13,814 ha Murrupula fire, 13 September 2025 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 15,282 ha in total · 17 days
  11. 36,809 ha Murrupula fire, 9 September 2025 where it started 12% of the municipality · 43,808 ha in total · 22 days
  12. 6,194 ha Rapale fire, 2 September 2025 2.0% of the municipality · 26,065 ha in total · 24 days
  13. 5,333 ha Gilé fire, 1 September 2025 1.7% of the municipality · 169,464 ha in total · 29 days
  14. 38 ha Mogovolas fire, 15 September 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 24,027 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 2,637 ha Gilé fire, 14 September 2024 0.8% of the municipality · 3,057 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 4,116 ha Murrupula fire, 14 September 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 4,095 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 13,315 ha Murrupula fire, 7 September 2024 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 13,339 ha in total · 14 days
  18. 11 ha Ribaué fire, August 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 5,439 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 7,703 ha Murrupula fire, 28 September 2022 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 7,656 ha in total · 13 days
  20. 399 ha Ribaué fire, 27 September 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 14,336 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 8,267 ha Murrupula fire, 24 September 2022 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 9,010 ha in total · 17 days
  22. 179 ha Rapale fire, 19 September 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 3,374 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 6,693 ha Murrupula fire, October 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 7,414 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 1,647 ha Ribaué fire, 26 September 2021 0.5% of the municipality · 5,234 ha in total · 10 days
  25. 4,260 ha Murrupula fire, 24 September 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,234 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 3,754 ha Murrupula fire, 21 September 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,733 ha in total · 14 days
  27. 271 ha Ribaué fire, 20 September 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 6,454 ha in total · 11 days
  28. 2,356 ha Rapale fire, September 2021 0.8% of the municipality · 17,139 ha in total · 19 days
  29. 3,711 ha Murrupula fire, September 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,688 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 588 ha Rapale fire, 26 August 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 4,699 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 2,113 ha Murrupula fire, 25 August 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,363 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 759 ha Ribaué fire, 24 August 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 17,481 ha in total · 9 days
  33. 6,071 ha Murrupula fire, 24 August 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 6,400 ha in total · 8 days
  34. 450 ha Mogovolas fire, 22 August 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 9,645 ha in total · 10 days
  35. 587 ha Mogovolas fire, September 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 4,035 ha in total · 6 days
  36. 3,022 ha Murrupula fire, 22 September 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,364 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 168 ha Gilé fire, 16 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 3,204 ha in total · 6 days
  38. 6,811 ha Murrupula fire, 15 September 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 6,774 ha in total · 10 days
  39. 3,433 ha Murrupula fire, 13 September 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,750 ha in total · 10 days
  40. 6,667 ha Murrupula fire, 12 September 2019 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 6,626 ha in total · 13 days
  41. 1,005 ha Rapale fire, 11 September 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 3,489 ha in total · 6 days
  42. 40 ha Ribaué fire, 31 August 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,149 ha in total · 10 days
  43. 480 ha Rapale fire, August 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 3,169 ha in total · 6 days
  44. 3,362 ha Murrupula fire, 27 September 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,374 ha in total · 3 days
  45. 5,500 ha Murrupula fire, 26 September 2018 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 5,471 ha in total · 9 days
  46. 1,744 ha Murrupula fire, 25 September 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,508 ha in total · 5 days
  47. 5,362 ha Murrupula fire, 22 September 2018 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 5,332 ha in total · 8 days
  48. 11,213 ha Murrupula fire, 19 September 2018 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 11,300 ha in total · 15 days
  49. 379 ha Rapale fire, September 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 16,040 ha in total · 13 days
  50. 3,073 ha Murrupula fire, 18 September 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,057 ha in total · 6 days
  51. 7,822 ha Ribaué fire, 14 September 2018 2.5% of the municipality · 17,193 ha in total · 10 days
  52. 3,765 ha Murrupula fire, 14 September 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,763 ha in total · 10 days
  53. 2,369 ha Ribaué fire, 14 September 2018 0.8% of the municipality · 11,628 ha in total · 8 days
  54. 4,212 ha Gilé fire, 12 September 2018 1.4% of the municipality · 25,284 ha in total · 12 days
  55. 3,819 ha Murrupula fire, October 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,795 ha in total · 7 days
  56. 3,536 ha Murrupula fire, September 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,517 ha in total · 7 days
  57. 543 ha Ribaué fire, 10 September 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 3,016 ha in total · 7 days
  58. 2,967 ha Ribaué fire, 6 September 2017 1.0% of the municipality · 7,473 ha in total · 14 days
  59. 38 ha Ribaué fire, 6 September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 53,154 ha in total · 17 days
  60. 13,084 ha Rapale fire, September 2017 4.2% of the municipality · 31,412 ha in total · 17 days
  61. 6,942 ha Murrupula fire, October 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 7,095 ha in total · 7 days
  62. 3,667 ha Murrupula fire, 22 September 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,647 ha in total · 2 days
  63. 5,494 ha Murrupula fire, 18 September 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 5,469 ha in total · 9 days
  64. 1,356 ha Murrupula fire, 12 September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,554 ha in total · 8 days
  65. 3,494 ha Ribaué fire, 9 September 2016 1.1% of the municipality · 63,932 ha in total · 22 days
  66. 7,409 ha Rapale fire, September 2016 2.4% of the municipality · 29,696 ha in total · 23 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).