🇲🇿 Mozambique: wildfires in August 2026
Unit: archived detection events, grouped by first-detection day and a roughly 11 km cell. One physical fire can span multiple records; hotspots can also be agricultural, industrial or urban. These counts are not a census of confirmed wildfires. The archive starts on August 3, 2026; the current month is incomplete.
Mozambique, August 2026: 165 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 3 October at 19:03.
Busiest day: 4 August, with 16 ignitions detected.
"In August 2026, kanari archived 165 detection events in Mozambique, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 184 MW."
Fire ignitions per day
Most powerful fires of the month
| Place | First detection (UTC) | Detections | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angoche | 4 Aug, 07:53 | 28 | 184 |
| Macomia | 29 Aug, 10:50 | 29 | 168 |
| Micolene | 11 Aug, 10:23 | 17 | 152 |
| Insaca | 14 Aug, 12:30 | 13 | 147 |
| Caniçado | 20 Aug, 08:30 | 40 | 145 |
| Catandica | 31 Aug, 09:13 | 10 | 144 |
| Nova Mambone | 31 Aug, 12:48 | 36 | 133 |
| Ribáuè | 16 Aug, 08:00 | 23 | 127 |
| Nova Mambone | 9 Aug, 09:02 | 28 | 112 |
| Montepuez | 5 Aug, 12:43 | 3 | 111 |
Cite these figures
kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Mozambique, August 2026: 165 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-03.
Methodology: only significant fires are archived (corroborated by witnesses, or above detection and power thresholds); totals are not comparable to exhaustive official tallies. Full methodology and licence.
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