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Wildfire near Dondo, Mozambique

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Map: Wildfire near Dondo, Mozambique

GDACS has tracked this wildfire near Dondo, Mozambique since October 8, 2026, 14 days as of its latest update on October 22. It carries a GREEN alert: limited humanitarian impact expected. Satellites put the burned area at 219,721 acres (88,918 hectares, 889 km²), roughly 15 times the size of Manhattan, or about 166,455 American football fields.

TypeWildfire
GDACS alertGreen
CountryMozambique
SinceOct 8, 2026
Tracked for14 days
Burned area88,918 ha · 219,716 acres
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How the size is measured

GDACS estimates burned areas from satellite data, so the figures cover the whole fire complex and may include several fires burning close together.

Seen from space

Satellite picture, When tracking began · October 8, 2026
When tracking began · October 8, 2026
Satellite picture, Latest · October 22, 2026
Latest · October 22, 2026

True color from the VIIRS instrument on the NOAA-20 satellite. Red dots are fires detected by their heat; smoke shows as gray-brown haze. The ring marks where the event was reported. Pictures: NASA Worldview (GIBS) from the daily satellite passes; clouds can hide the ground on some days.

GDACS report. Source: GDACS, the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System of the United Nations and the European Commission (CC BY 4.0).

Did you know?

Wind drives fire. Wind is the biggest driver of fire spread: a fire that creeps along in calm air can race across several kilometers in an hour in a strong wind.

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