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Wildfires in Namuno

Namuno, Mozambique, has had 28 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 105,006 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 17% 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. Fri 30 High 31° · 40 % · 38 km/h
  2. Sat 31 High 32° · 30 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 1 High 32° · 30 % · 32 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very high 34° · 24 % · 43 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very high 36° · 30 % · 44 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very high 37° · 24 % · 45 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Extreme 37° · 19 % · 44 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Extreme 37° · 23 % · 53 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

105,006
hectares burned
17 %
of its area
28
fires
6,017
km²

How many times has Namuno burned?

Namuno has burned 28 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Namuno fire, September 2026, with 4,475 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 105,006 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 87,360 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 11× 26
28
fires
9
years with fire
105,006
cumulative ha
87,360
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 Namuno

  1. 4,475 ha Namuno fire, September 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,451 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 2,518 ha Namuno fire, 22 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,811 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 3,150 ha Namuno fire, 22 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,130 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 3,943 ha Namuno fire, 15 August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,921 ha in total · 17 days
  5. 3,317 ha Namuno fire, 11 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,296 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 1,472 ha Namuno fire, 11 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,119 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 3,636 ha Namuno fire, 6 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,656 ha in total · 21 days
  8. 13,896 ha Namuno fire, 5 August 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 13,824 ha in total · 32 days
  9. 1,133 ha Montepuez fire, 1 August 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,300 ha in total · 15 days
  10. 3 ha Balama fire, 30 July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 46,372 ha in total · 47 days
  11. 4,044 ha Namuno fire, July 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,017 ha in total · 19 days
  12. 20 ha Eráti fire, August 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,120 ha in total · 18 days
  13. 6,358 ha Namuno fire, 22 August 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,324 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 2,765 ha Namuno fire, 16 August 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,667 ha in total · 20 days
  15. 3,197 ha Namuno fire, August 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,181 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 5,603 ha Namuno fire, August 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,574 ha in total · 10 days
  17. 5,069 ha Namuno fire, 23 August 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,037 ha in total · 17 days
  18. 3,905 ha Namuno fire, 14 August 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,135 ha in total · 18 days
  19. 3,696 ha Namuno fire, 3 August 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,678 ha in total · 13 days
  20. 3,429 ha Namuno fire, 3 August 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,411 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 3,244 ha Namuno fire, September 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,539 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 1,578 ha Namuno fire, August 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,773 ha in total · 17 days
  23. 2,846 ha Namuno fire, September 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,349 ha in total · 14 days
  24. 5,114 ha Balama fire, 9 August 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 7,152 ha in total · 14 days
  25. 3,575 ha Namuno fire, August 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,554 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 3,747 ha Namuno fire, 29 July 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,724 ha in total · 12 days
  27. 3,026 ha Namuno fire, 26 July 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,006 ha in total · 10 days
  28. 6,249 ha Namuno fire, 25 July 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,207 ha in total · 18 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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