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Wildfires in Nhamatanda

Nhamatanda, Mozambique, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 19,067 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Tue 27 Moderate 37° · 30 % · 30 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 33° · 56 % · 41 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Moderate 32° · 38 % · 40 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Moderate 31° · 34 % · 33 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Moderate 30° · 41 % · 28 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Moderate 31° · 38 % · 45 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Moderate 33° · 37 % · 44 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Moderate 35° · 40 % · 37 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

19,067
hectares burned
4.7 %
of its area
9
fires
4,038
km²

How many times has Nhamatanda burned?

Nhamatanda has burned 9 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Nhamatanda fire, October 2026, with 3,338 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 19,067 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 13,915 hectares, 3.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 4× 26
9
fires
6
years with fire
19,067
cumulative ha
13,915
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 Nhamatanda

  1. 3,338 ha Nhamatanda fire, October 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,315 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 147 ha Búzi fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 12,332 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 3,601 ha Nhamatanda fire, September 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 9,443 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 3,036 ha Nhamatanda fire, August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,825 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 1,879 ha Nhamatanda fire, October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,813 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 80 ha Gorongosa fire, 20 September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,739 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 3,298 ha Nhamatanda fire, October 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,275 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 2,944 ha Nhamatanda fire, August 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,301 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 742 ha Gondola fire, 1 September 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 6,128 ha in total · 10 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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