Wildfires in Ghanzi

Name: Ghanzi
Address: BW

Ghanzi, Botswana, has had 473 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,239,504 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 52).

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

Fri 23 Extreme 35° · 14 % · 46 km/h
Sat 24 Extreme 36° · 16 % · 40 km/h
Sun 25 Extreme 36° · 18 % · 40 km/h
Mon 26 Very high 37° · 15 % · 45 km/h
Tue 27 Moderate 34° · 26 % · 41 km/h
Wed 28 High 34° · 24 % · 39 km/h
Thu 29 Very high 36° · 15 % · 39 km/h
Fri 30 Very high 36° · 14 % · 43 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.

Since 2016

3,239,504
hectares burned: 28 %
of its area: 473
fires: 115,081
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Ghanzi

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).

Fire danger, today and the coming days

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

Hectares per year

Fires that entered Ghanzi

Where this data comes from