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Wildfires in Niassa

Niassa, Mozambique: 594 fires with a page have entered 16 of its 19 districts since 2016, burning 3,496,692 hectares inside the region. The largest was Cuamba in 22 August 2026, with 61,498 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 44).

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; 3 pages with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
3,496,692ha
Since 2016
Of the region
27%
130,144 km²
fires
594
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
16
of 19
Largest fire
61,498ha
Cuamba · 22 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. Sun 8 Very high 37° · 23 % · 31 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Very high 37° · 19 % · 32 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very high 35° · 27 % · 32 km/h
  4. Wed 11 High 34° · 35 % · 31 km/h
  5. Thu 12 High 33° · 39 % · 37 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Moderate 32° · 44 % · 34 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Low 32° · 44 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very low 29° · 78 % · 46 km/h

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Burning now in the region

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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. Mecula 1,309,716 ha · 72 %
  2. Mavago 517,581 ha · 56 %
  3. Sanga 510,834 ha · 41 %
  4. Majune 395,938 ha · 35 %
  5. Marrupa 303,790 ha · 17 %
  6. Muembe 88,645 ha · 15 %
  7. Metarica 61,481 ha · 13 %
  8. Cuamba 58,755 ha · 11 %
  9. Ngauma 57,044 ha · 19 %
  10. Chimbonila 42,960 ha · 7.9 %
  11. Mandimba 38,955 ha · 8.3 %
  12. Mecanhelas 38,352 ha · 7.6 %

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
2026132777,194 Cuamba 61,498 ha
202584534,461 Mecula 39,816 ha
20241251,821 Ngauma 7,945 ha
20231880,537 Ngauma 11,507 ha
202256435,853 Mavago 54,929 ha
202139243,709 Mecula 28,843 ha
202058357,480 Mavago 28,007 ha
201954286,913 Sanga 18,771 ha
201851272,364 Sanga 17,243 ha
201745236,745 Sanga 19,246 ha
201645219,614 Mecula 12,110 ha

All fires in Niassa · 598

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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