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Wildfires in Tete
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 95,070 km² of Tete at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 53,530 km², ranking 3rd 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 2019, with 59,610 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 43,070 km². The 2021–2025 average is 9.0% 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.
August, September and October together hold 77% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 17 October 2017, with detections in 2,665 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 95,070 km² with at least one detection, 93% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 3,150 | 3.3% |
| 2 years | 3,340 | 3.5% |
| 3 to 5 years | 15,130 | 16% |
| 6 to 10 years | 52,700 | 55% |
| 11 years or more | 20,760 | 22% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -15.25, 33.75 and holds 4.1% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 52,170 | 64,482 |
| 2013 | 59,300 | 72,801 |
| 2014 | 54,020 | 65,806 |
| 2015 | 59,430 | 74,808 |
| 2016 | 51,430 | 63,519 |
| 2017 | 56,170 | 69,730 |
| 2018 | 53,580 | 66,417 |
| 2019 | 59,610 | 76,783 |
| 2020 | 52,190 | 66,821 |
| 2021 | 55,750 | 70,020 |
| 2022 | 48,590 | 58,034 |
| 2023 | 57,140 | 75,506 |
| 2024 | 43,070 | 52,724 |
| 2025 | 46,990 | 58,725 |
Other regions of Mozambique
- Zambezia76,460 km² in an average year
- Niassa71,400 km² in an average year
- Nampula47,160 km² in an average year
- Cabo Delgado41,480 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
- Neno, Malawi107 km
- Lilongwe, Malawi111 km
- Blantyre, Malawi120 km
- Mwanza, Malawi120 km
- Ntcheu, Malawi120 km
- Dedza, Malawi123 km