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Wildfires in Manica

Manica, Mozambique: 210 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 12 districts since 2016, burning 1,149,163 hectares inside the region. The largest was Macossa in 22 August 2025, with 30,352 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 30).

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 3 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
1,149,163ha
Since 2016
Of the region
18%
63,247 km²
fires
210
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 12
Largest fire
30,352ha
Macossa · 22 August 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 10 Moderate 28° · 47 % · 35 km/h
  2. Wed 11 High 30° · 32 % · 30 km/h
  3. Thu 12 High 31° · 40 % · 36 km/h
  4. Fri 13 High 31° · 44 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Moderate 31° · 49 % · 39 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Moderate 31° · 42 % · 36 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Moderate 33° · 44 % · 35 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Low 34° · 41 % · 48 km/h

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Burning now in the region

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Bárue 551,622 ha · 95 %
  2. Macossa 207,302 ha · 22 %
  3. Sussundenga 133,905 ha · 19 %
  4. Guro 112,516 ha · 16 %
  5. Gondola 46,980 ha · 17 %
  6. Macate 30,836 ha · 17 %
  7. Tambara 21,945 ha · 5.1 %
  8. Vanduzi 21,275 ha · 6.7 %
  9. Mossurize 13,765 ha · 2.7 %
  10. Manica 9,018 ha · 3.5 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (3,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202663354,287 Macossa 28,831 ha
202525156,794 Macossa 30,352 ha
2024946,703 Macate 9,441 ha
20231274,139 Macossa 27,859 ha
20221485,123 Bárue 13,855 ha
20211757,803 Macossa 5,602 ha
20201246,344 Bárue 7,152 ha
20191146,718 Bárue 8,224 ha
20181046,035 Bárue 8,944 ha
201718117,884 Bárue 12,813 ha
201619117,332 Bárue 25,592 ha

All fires in Manica · 213

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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