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Wildfires in Nampula

Nampula, Mozambique: 398 fires with a page have entered 18 of its 23 districts since 2016, burning 2,582,070 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ribaué in 16 August 2026, with 85,210 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 35).

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.

hectares burned
2,582,070ha
Since 2016
Of the region
33%
78,596 km²
fires
398
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
18
of 23
Largest fire
85,210ha
Ribaué · 16 August 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 High 34° · 29 % · 37 km/h
  2. Tue 27 High 36° · 27 % · 35 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very high 37° · 26 % · 40 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Low 33° · 50 % · 40 km/h
  5. Fri 30 High 31° · 30 % · 40 km/h
  6. Sat 31 High 30° · 33 % · 36 km/h
  7. Sun 1 High 30° · 40 % · 35 km/h
  8. Mon 2 High 35° · 29 % · 45 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Ribaué 441,893 ha · 70 %
  2. Lalaua 294,362 ha · 65 %
  3. Murrupula 291,744 ha · 94 %
  4. Liúpo 248,210 ha · 1.2×
  5. Mogovolas 242,614 ha · 51 %
  6. Malema 200,175 ha · 33 %
  7. Rapale 164,212 ha · 45 %
  8. Mecubúri 159,289 ha · 22 %
  9. Larde 148,718 ha · 80 %
  10. Meconta 89,070 ha · 24 %
  11. Mossuril 86,600 ha · 25 %
  12. Muecate 68,277 ha · 17 %

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
202678613,344 Ribaué 85,210 ha
202549439,534 Malema 46,404 ha
202432166,288 Mogovolas 24,145 ha
20231278,120 Larde 15,715 ha
202228186,955 Gilé 24,379 ha
202127136,418 Rapale 17,237 ha
202034196,294 Liúpo 16,782 ha
201932132,171 Lalaua 6,973 ha
201832194,936 Ribaué 17,278 ha
201735201,800 Rapale 31,576 ha
201640240,213 Rapale 29,858 ha

All fires in Nampula · 399

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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