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Wildfires in Rapale

Rapale, Mozambique, has had 33 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 170,553 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 46% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 29).

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 35° · 32 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 34° · 35 % · 37 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 34° · 34 % · 38 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 35° · 31 % · 40 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 27 % · 49 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 36° · 34 % · 47 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 56 % · 43 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 29° · 38 % · 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

170,553
hectares burned
46 %
of its area
33
fires
3,682
km²

How many times has Rapale burned?

Rapale has burned 33 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mogovolas fire, 11 September 2026, with 1,775 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 170,553 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 63,115 hectares, 17 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 4× 26
33
fires
10
years with fire
170,553
cumulative ha
63,115
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 Rapale

  1. 1,775 ha Mogovolas fire, 11 September 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 6,826 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 600 ha Mogovolas fire, 1 September 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 51,629 ha in total · 28 days
  3. 21,372 ha Ribaué fire, 18 August 2026 5.8% of the municipality · 26,995 ha in total · 31 days
  4. 1,073 ha Ribaué fire, 16 August 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 3,334 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 1,576 ha Rapale fire, 25 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,722 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 1,182 ha Murrupula fire, 13 September 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 15,282 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 20,020 ha Rapale fire, 2 September 2025 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 26,065 ha in total · 24 days
  8. 3,974 ha Mogovolas fire, 15 September 2024 1.1% of the municipality · 24,027 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 137 ha Meconta fire, 15 September 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,621 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 23 ha Mecubúri fire, 10 September 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,218 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 96 ha Mecubúri fire, 5 October 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,559 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 3,162 ha Rapale fire, October 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,142 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 3,216 ha Rapale fire, 19 September 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,374 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 3,892 ha Rapale fire, 15 September 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,869 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 10 ha Mogovolas fire, 13 October 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 5,641 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 14,880 ha Rapale fire, September 2021 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 17,139 ha in total · 19 days
  17. 585 ha Rapale fire, 28 August 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,055 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 1,272 ha Mogovolas fire, 26 August 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 8,187 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 4,139 ha Rapale fire, 26 August 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,699 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 320 ha Murrupula fire, 24 August 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 6,400 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 1,795 ha Mogovolas fire, 22 August 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 9,645 ha in total · 10 days
  22. 6,997 ha Rapale fire, 13 August 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 6,956 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 258 ha Mogovolas fire, September 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 4,035 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 3,826 ha Rapale fire, 14 September 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,803 ha in total · 8 days
  25. 2,504 ha Rapale fire, 11 September 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,489 ha in total · 6 days
  26. 3,179 ha Rapale fire, 3 September 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,160 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 2,705 ha Rapale fire, August 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,169 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 591 ha Murrupula fire, 25 September 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 3,508 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 15,756 ha Rapale fire, September 2018 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 16,040 ha in total · 13 days
  30. 8,929 ha Ribaué fire, 14 September 2018 2.4% of the municipality · 17,193 ha in total · 10 days
  31. 2 ha Mogovolas fire, September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 4,784 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 18,420 ha Rapale fire, September 2017 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 31,412 ha in total · 17 days
  33. 22,286 ha Rapale fire, September 2016 where it started 6.0% of the municipality · 29,696 ha in total · 23 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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