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Wildfires in Palma

Palma, Mozambique, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 27,457 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.7% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 59 % · 36 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 32° · 51 % · 40 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Moderate 32° · 50 % · 37 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Moderate 33° · 45 % · 38 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Low 34° · 42 % · 40 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Moderate 30° · 58 % · 42 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Low 31° · 54 % · 46 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 52 % · 39 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

27,457
hectares burned
7.7 %
of its area
7
fires
3,544
km²

How many times has Palma burned?

Palma has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Palma fire, November 2025, with 3,650 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 27,457 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 24,944 hectares, 7.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
7
fires
5
years with fire
27,457
cumulative ha
24,944
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 Palma

  1. 3,650 ha Palma fire, November 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,627 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 4,867 ha Palma fire, November 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,836 ha in total · 30 days
  3. 3,570 ha Palma fire, September 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,546 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 3,500 ha Palma fire, November 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,479 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 4,852 ha Palma fire, 26 October 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,821 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 3,919 ha Palma fire, 22 October 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,892 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 3,099 ha Palma fire, November 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,077 ha in total · 8 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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