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Wildfires in Sofala

Sofala, Mozambique: 214 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 13 districts since 2016, burning 1,728,058 hectares inside the region. The largest was Muanza in 17 October 2019, with 118,000 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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

hectares burned
1,728,058ha
Since 2016
Of the region
25%
68,557 km²
fires
214
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 13
Largest fire
118,000ha
Muanza · 17 October 2019
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 39° · 29 % · 49 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 71 % · 44 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 32° · 41 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 33° · 38 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 36° · 28 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 48 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 30° · 35 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 29° · 40 % · 46 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. Muanza 677,628 ha · 90 %
  2. Gorongosa 503,899 ha · 74 %
  3. Cheringoma 328,361 ha · 46 %
  4. Marromeu 123,796 ha · 21 %
  5. Dondo 39,936 ha · 17 %
  6. Búzi 21,214 ha · 2.9 %
  7. Nhamatanda 15,700 ha · 3.9 %
  8. Maringué 11,257 ha · 1.8 %
  9. Chemba 6,599 ha · 1.7 %
  10. Chibabava 4,539 ha · 0.6 %

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
202639482,953 Muanza 112,737 ha
202520170,130 Gorongosa 56,283 ha
20241572,502 Cheringoma 10,561 ha
20231074,142 Cheringoma 16,206 ha
20221174,038 Gorongosa 19,488 ha
202119122,908 Gorongosa 22,741 ha
202022115,205 Marromeu 17,807 ha
201927300,403 Muanza 118,000 ha
201818103,140 Gorongosa 13,202 ha
201720101,513 Cheringoma 11,502 ha
201615115,994 Muanza 21,052 ha

All fires in Sofala · 216

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).