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Wildfires in Namibia

1,193 fires over 2,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 7,015,766 hectares burned across 60 constituencies.

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Namibia, at this point in the year: 870,631 hectares, below the 2012–2025 average of 1,595,309.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20251,384,461 ha

Worst year2021 2,145,878 ha

With a page here1,193 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	1,637	873,337	GWIS
2025	1,363	828,871	GWIS
2024	1,025	653,486	GWIS
2023	2,485	1,700,809	GWIS
2022	2,409	1,642,239	GWIS
2021	3,061	2,145,878	GWIS
2020	2,688	1,927,115	GWIS
2019	1,059	693,253	GWIS
2018	1,884	1,138,630	GWIS
2017	2,727	1,719,527	GWIS
2016	2,113	1,394,799	GWIS
2015	2,519	1,662,858	GWIS
2014	2,815	1,478,703	GWIS
2013	3,059	2,193,209	GWIS
2012	5,675	5,012,176	GWIS

National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.

Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

	Jan	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026				27k	132k	559k	479k	79k			1,275,575	Outjo 207,324 ha
2025						37k	593k	31k	30k		690,731	Okahao 85,441 ha
2024					43k	93k	72k	25k	7k		241,315	Mashare 44,692 ha
2023		2k	20k	32k	52k	193k	320k	69k			688,130	Kapako 34,882 ha
2022	2k		2k	42k	13k	168k	360k	94k		2k	683,529	Ndiyona 59,032 ha
2021			6k	11k	29k	110k	524k	121k	130k	13k	943,444	Outjo 63,083 ha
2020				3k	13k	35k	338k	286k	68k	6k	748,798	Mashare 56,605 ha
2019			11k	5k	26k	34k	192k	23k			290,108	Ndiyona 74,641 ha
2018				6k		75k	209k	108k	2k		400,906	Rundu Rural West 17,533 ha
2017				2k	6k	123k	231k	178k	7k		546,927	Ndiyona 33,278 ha
2016		9k	7k	4k	31k	85k	230k	139k	2k		506,303	Tsumkwe 24,530 ha