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Wildfires in Ngauma

Ngauma, Mozambique, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 56,884 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 19% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 43).

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. Wed 28 High 35° · 20 % · 31 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very high 34° · 28 % · 39 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very high 32° · 28 % · 41 km/h
  4. Sat 31 High 34° · 20 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sun 1 High 31° · 33 % · 38 km/h
  6. Mon 2 High 33° · 29 % · 51 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Low 33° · 35 % · 33 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Moderate 33° · 33 % · 34 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

56,884
hectares burned
19 %
of its area
10
fires
3,023
km²

How many times has Ngauma burned?

Ngauma has burned 10 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Ngauma fire, October 2026, with 12,515 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 56,884 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 44,551 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 5× 26
10
fires
4
years with fire
56,884
cumulative ha
44,551
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 Ngauma

  1. 12,515 ha Ngauma fire, October 2026 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 16,622 ha in total · 25 days
  2. 24 ha Mandimba fire, 6 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 4,640 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 3,146 ha Ngauma fire, 6 September 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,127 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 2,974 ha Ngauma fire, 3 September 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 7,182 ha in total · 24 days
  5. 6,902 ha Ngauma fire, 3 September 2026 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 7,892 ha in total · 24 days
  6. 5,350 ha Ngauma fire, 6 September 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 5,466 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 3,225 ha Ngauma fire, 1 September 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,427 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 7,945 ha Ngauma fire, September 2024 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 7,901 ha in total · 20 days
  9. 3,296 ha Ngauma fire, 5 October 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,279 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 11,507 ha Ngauma fire, 4 October 2023 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 11,441 ha in total · 14 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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