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Wildfires in Tete

Tete, Mozambique: 116 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 15 districts since 2016, burning 656,390 hectares inside the region. The largest was Moatize in 5 September 2026, with 67,219 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 54).

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 page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
656,390ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.5%
101,130 km²
fires
116
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 15
Largest fire
67,219ha
Moatize · 5 September 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 4 Very high 37° · 26 % · 44 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Extreme 37° · 26 % · 44 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very high 38° · 24 % · 41 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very high 40° · 16 % · 34 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Extreme 40° · 17 % · 66 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very extreme 36° · 29 % · 66 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very high 34° · 34 % · 57 km/h
  8. Wed 11 High 37° · 23 % · 43 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. Moatize 230,507 ha · 27 %
  2. Tsangano 87,924 ha · 24 %
  3. Zumbu 79,540 ha · 6.6 %
  4. Chiuta 66,616 ha · 9.3 %
  5. Changara 64,987 ha · 11 %
  6. Magoé 59,918 ha · 7.0 %
  7. Marávia 24,894 ha · 1.5 %
  8. Cahora Bassa 23,060 ha · 2.6 %
  9. Chifunde 6,982 ha · 0.7 %
  10. Macanga 6,497 ha · 0.9 %
  11. Mutarara 3,615 ha · 1.3 %
  12. Angónia 1,850 ha · 0.6 %

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
202632224,488 Moatize 67,219 ha
2025942,118 Chiuta 7,302 ha
2024311,958 Chiuta 4,211 ha
2023521,186 Changara 5,937 ha
20221485,471 Zumbu 14,979 ha
20211046,830 Moatize 7,910 ha
20201145,629 Changara 7,262 ha
2019419,076 Magoé 5,503 ha
2018946,136 Moatize 9,680 ha
2017843,228 Magoé 12,171 ha
20161170,271 Moatize 17,406 ha

All fires in Tete · 117

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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