Mozambique fire activity: satellite footprint reaches 317,489 hectares
Fire Activity
How the score is calculated
The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.
- Affected people
- 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
- Deaths
- 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
- Displaced people
- 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
- Casualties
- 100 or more: +8
- Story wording
- +10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.
Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.
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In brief
- What happenedGDACS retained a Green alert for fire activity in Mozambique.
- How many affectedSatellite-derived burned-area footprint: 317,489 hectares · GDACS, 18 September 2026 · Population inside footprint: 97,758 estimated people · exposure, not confirmed victims · Detection period: 3–18 September 2026
- What help is neededResponse priorities should be confirmed in the linked source reports as needs change.
What changed
First retained snapshot
No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.
Situation
GDACS retained a Green alert for fire activity in Mozambique. Its satellite-derived event footprint covered 317,489 hectares between 3 and 18 September 2026, with an estimated 97,758 people living inside the burned-area footprint. That exposure estimate is not a confirmed count of people harmed or displaced. The accompanying NASA Worldview image combines NOAA-20 VIIRS true-colour imagery with thermal-anomaly markers; hotspots can include agricultural or managed burns and should not be interpreted as ground-verified wildfire damage.
WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 3 attributed sources, cleaned feed formatting and checked the event, place and reporting date. 3 human-impact figures were separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.
Verified figures
- Satellite-derived burned-area footprint
- 317,489 hectares · GDACS, 18 September 2026 retained at 2026-09-19
- Population inside footprint
- 97,758 estimated people · exposure, not confirmed victims retained at 2026-09-19
- Detection period
- 3–18 September 2026 retained at 2026-09-19
What we knew when
- WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
- GDACS Green alert; satellite-derived footprint and exposure retained with methodology caveat preserved as a dated, source-linked observation. Source
Earlier figures are never replaced by later values; additional observations are retained as new ledger entries.
Provenance
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