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Wildfires in Nicoadala

Nicoadala, Mozambique, has had 28 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 162,640 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 59% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

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. Sat 24 High 33° · 45 % · 38 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 32° · 41 % · 42 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 34° · 39 % · 35 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 38° · 27 % · 38 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 41° · 17 % · 43 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 32° · 61 % · 47 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 30° · 37 % · 44 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 31° · 44 % · 38 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

162,640
hectares burned
59 %
of its area
28
fires
2,779
km²

How many times has Nicoadala burned?

Nicoadala has burned 28 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mopeia fire, 11 September 2026, with 173 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 162,640 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 87,964 hectares, 32 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 8× 26
28
fires
10
years with fire
162,640
cumulative ha
87,964
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 Nicoadala

  1. 173 ha Mopeia fire, 11 September 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,163 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 2,379 ha Nicoadala fire, 10 September 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,196 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 20,946 ha Nicoadala fire, 4 September 2026 where it started 7.5% of the municipality · 35,252 ha in total · 26 days
  4. 3,094 ha Nicoadala fire, August 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,115 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 669 ha Maquival fire, August 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,319 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 34,524 ha Mocuba fire, 21 August 2026 12% of the municipality · 129,061 ha in total · 40 days
  7. 3,581 ha Mopeia fire, 15 August 2026 1.3% of the municipality · 15,043 ha in total · 24 days
  8. 2,200 ha Mopeia fire, 4 August 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 4,428 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 7,872 ha Nicoadala fire, October 2025 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 15,140 ha in total · 20 days
  10. 3,208 ha Nicoadala fire, 28 September 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,448 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 3,453 ha Nicoadala fire, 20 September 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,439 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 275 ha Mocuba fire, 8 September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 8,080 ha in total · 18 days
  13. 6,418 ha Nicoadala fire, 4 September 2025 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 6,412 ha in total · 24 days
  14. 10,874 ha Namacurra fire, 3 September 2025 3.9% of the municipality · 62,871 ha in total · 44 days
  15. 9,461 ha Nicoadala fire, September 2024 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 10,199 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 5,183 ha Nicoadala fire, 24 September 2023 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 5,154 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 16,810 ha Nicoadala fire, 15 September 2023 where it started 6.0% of the municipality · 17,548 ha in total · 17 days
  18. 973 ha Mopeia fire, October 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 4,384 ha in total · 12 days
  19. 4,329 ha Nicoadala fire, September 2021 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,309 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 1,094 ha Mocuba fire, 14 September 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 3,162 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 3,879 ha Nicoadala fire, 15 September 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,860 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 1,689 ha Nicoadala fire, 15 September 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,922 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 3,325 ha Namacurra fire, September 2018 1.2% of the municipality · 3,849 ha in total · 8 days
  24. 3,504 ha Nicoadala fire, 4 October 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,660 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 3,043 ha Nicoadala fire, 3 October 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,029 ha in total · 9 days
  26. 3,550 ha Nicoadala fire, 7 September 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,575 ha in total · 16 days
  27. 4,001 ha Nicoadala fire, 5 September 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,982 ha in total · 7 days
  28. 2,134 ha Nicoadala fire, July 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,632 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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