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Wildfires in Kgatleng

Kgatleng, Botswana, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 32,878 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 47).

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. Sat 24 Extreme 33° · 24 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 35° · 19 % · 42 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Extreme 38° · 8 % · 44 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 34° · 23 % · 39 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 33° · 21 % · 45 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very high 32° · 27 % · 51 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very high 33° · 21 % · 49 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very high 35° · 22 % · 47 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

32,878
hectares burned
4.2 %
of its area
8
fires
7,860
km²

How many times has Kgatleng burned?

Kgatleng has burned 8 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Mahalapye fire, August 2026, with 391 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
8
fires
4
years with fire
32,878
cumulative ha
18 Aug 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 2,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Botswana →

Fires that entered Kgatleng

  1. 391 ha Mahalapye fire, August 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,246 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 10,057 ha Kgatleng fire, October 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 9,999 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 29 ha Mahalapye fire, August 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,416 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 7,495 ha Kgatleng fire, August 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,409 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 4,829 ha Mahalapye fire, October 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 18,282 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 6,995 ha Kgatleng fire, 18 September 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 6,967 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 2,851 ha Kgatleng fire, 12 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 10,220 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 231 ha Mahalapye fire, September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,090 ha in total · 3 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).

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