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Wildfires in Cabo Delgado
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 06:20 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 76,660 km² of Cabo Delgado at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 41,480 km², ranking 5th of 11 regions of Mozambique.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2020, with 44,870 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 33,880 km². The 2021–2025 average is 5.7% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
July, August and September together hold 67% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 29 August 2023, with detections in 1,908 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 76,660 km² with at least one detection, 96% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,200 | 1.6% |
| 2 years | 1,700 | 2.2% |
| 3 to 5 years | 13,870 | 18% |
| 6 to 10 years | 49,260 | 64% |
| 11 years or more | 10,630 | 14% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -13.25, 40.25 and holds 5.8% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 41,240 | 48,115 |
| 2013 | 40,480 | 47,321 |
| 2014 | 42,820 | 49,704 |
| 2015 | 41,750 | 49,628 |
| 2016 | 43,000 | 51,647 |
| 2017 | 43,200 | 51,692 |
| 2018 | 43,480 | 51,982 |
| 2019 | 42,650 | 51,839 |
| 2020 | 44,870 | 56,246 |
| 2021 | 40,200 | 47,447 |
| 2022 | 33,880 | 37,522 |
| 2023 | 41,220 | 48,759 |
| 2024 | 40,350 | 47,770 |
| 2025 | 41,630 | 49,572 |
Other regions of Mozambique
- Zambezia76,460 km² in an average year
- Niassa71,400 km² in an average year
- Tete53,530 km² in an average year
- Nampula47,160 km² in an average year
- Sofala40,470 km² in an average year
- Manica38,630 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Nampula222 km
- Mtwara, Tanzania322 km
- Andjazîdja, Comoros365 km
- Lindi, Tanzania404 km
- Niassa487 km
- Machinga, Malawi513 km