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Wildfires in Zumbu

Zumbu, Mozambique, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 79,540 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 38).

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 10 High 32° · 35 % · 50 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very high 34° · 29 % · 43 km/h
  3. Thu 12 High 36° · 20 % · 39 km/h
  4. Fri 13 High 36° · 22 % · 39 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very high 37° · 25 % · 39 km/h
  6. Sun 15 High 34° · 41 % · 37 km/h
  7. Mon 16 High 35° · 31 % · 39 km/h
  8. Tue 17 High 35° · 33 % · 52 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Zumbu: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

79,540
hectares burned
6.6 %
of its area
15
fires
12,068
km²

How many times has Zumbu burned?

Zumbu has burned 15 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Zumbu fire, 16 October 2026, with 7,644 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 79,540 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 66,455 hectares, 5.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 4× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 5× 26
15
fires
7
years with fire
79,540
cumulative ha
66,455
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 Zumbu

  1. 7,644 ha Zumbu fire, 16 October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,590 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 5,617 ha Zumbu fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,580 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 5,222 ha Zumbu fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,184 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 3,908 ha Zumbu fire, 16 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,887 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 4,652 ha Zumbu fire, 14 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,617 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 3,353 ha Zumbu fire, August 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,329 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 4,597 ha Zumbu fire, 21 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,567 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 6,446 ha Zumbu fire, 12 September 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,399 ha in total · 16 days
  9. 4,151 ha Zumbu fire, 6 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,125 ha in total · 15 days
  10. 14,979 ha Zumbu fire, 5 September 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 14,877 ha in total · 23 days
  11. 3,413 ha Zumbu fire, November 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,388 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 3,802 ha Zumbu fire, September 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,773 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 4,991 ha Zumbu fire, 14 September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,954 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 3,063 ha Zumbu fire, 7 September 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,045 ha in total · 14 days
  15. 3,702 ha Zumbu fire, September 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,680 ha in total · 6 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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