Wildfires in Vilankulo
Vilankulo, Mozambique, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 6,685 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.1% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).
Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Low 35° · 50 % · 49 km/h
- Sat 24 Moderate 30° · 48 % · 39 km/h
- Sun 25 Moderate 32° · 40 % · 34 km/h
- Mon 26 Moderate 32° · 41 % · 31 km/h
- Tue 27 Moderate 34° · 37 % · 41 km/h
- Wed 28 Low 32° · 51 % · 45 km/h
- Thu 29 Moderate 29° · 35 % · 43 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 29° · 35 % · 45 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
- 6,685
- hectares burned
- 1.1 %
- of its area
- 2
- fires
- 5,882
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Vilankulo
- 336 ha Massinga fire, October 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
- 3,640 ha Vilankulo fire, October 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,627 ha in total · 6 days
- 3,044 ha Vilankulo fire, September 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,035 ha in total · 3 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).