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Wildfires in Bobonong

Bobonong, Botswana, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 26,253 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.9% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 37).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Extreme 34° · 13 % · 49 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 29° · 41 % · 48 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 34° · 25 % · 39 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 37° · 12 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 39° · 15 % · 42 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 33° · 28 % · 63 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 31° · 30 % · 56 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 31° · 25 % · 49 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

26,253
hectares burned
1.9 %
of its area
6
fires
14,081
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Bobonong

  1. 2,125 ha Bobonong fire, 2 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,117 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,667 ha Bobonong fire, 1 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,664 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 4,033 ha Bobonong fire, October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,025 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 2,503 ha Bobonong fire, September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,908 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 12,032 ha Bobonong fire, 30 October 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 13,162 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 2,893 ha Bobonong fire, 29 October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,881 ha in total · 4 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/RCMRD (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).