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Wildfires in Maputo

Maputo, Mozambique: 17 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 9 districts since 2016, burning 64,963 hectares inside the region. The largest was Magude in September 2021, with 7,089 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

Only fires of 3,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
64,963ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.8%
23,502 km²
fires
17
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 9
Largest fire
7,089ha
Magude · September 2021
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 High 29° · 46 % · 50 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 29° · 43 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 33° · 38 % · 39 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 35° · 37 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 38° · 22 % · 61 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 29° · 37 % · 52 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 27° · 37 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 26° · 42 % · 38 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Magude 22,411 ha · 3.2 %
  2. Matutuíne 20,087 ha · 3.7 %
  3. Moamba 19,289 ha · 4.2 %
  4. Namaacha 3,175 ha · 1.5 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 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
2026312,079 Moamba 5,752 ha
2021413,482 Magude 7,089 ha
2020312,968 Magude 4,757 ha
201929,974 Matutuíne 6,523 ha
201826,217 Moamba 3,172 ha
2017310,244 Matutuíne 3,714 ha

All fires in Maputo · 17

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).