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Wildfires in Kweneng North

Kweneng North, Botswana, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 57,883 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 45).

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 30 Extreme 34° · 21 % · 42 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very high 35° · 19 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very high 37° · 15 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Extreme 34° · 17 % · 45 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Extreme 36° · 17 % · 43 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Extreme 37° · 18 % · 43 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very high 38° · 22 % · 49 km/h
  8. Fri 6 High 38° · 23 % · 41 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

57,883
hectares burned
5.9 %
of its area
16
fires
9,855
km²

How many times has Kweneng North burned?

Kweneng North has burned 16 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Kweneng North fire, September 2024, with 3,115 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 5× 21
  7. 6× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
16
fires
5
years with fire
57,883
cumulative ha
29 Sept 2024
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 Kweneng North

  1. 3,115 ha Kweneng North fire, September 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,330 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,036 ha Kweneng North fire, 14 November 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,034 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,629 ha Kweneng North fire, 13 November 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,556 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2,078 ha Kweneng North fire, August 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,833 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 2,970 ha Kweneng North fire, 18 August 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,963 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 2,055 ha Kweneng North fire, 18 August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,054 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 3,092 ha Kweneng North fire, 18 August 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,090 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 3,862 ha Kweneng North fire, 17 August 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,855 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 11,237 ha Ghanzi fire, 16 August 2022 1.1% of the municipality · 43,633 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 443 ha Ghanzi fire, 13 August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,577 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 2,415 ha Kweneng North fire, November 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,416 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 7,335 ha Kweneng North fire, 15 October 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,311 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 3,795 ha Kweneng North fire, 15 October 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,782 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 3,711 ha Kweneng North fire, 14 October 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,696 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 8,010 ha Kweneng North fire, September 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 7,977 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 99 ha Ghanzi fire, 28 October 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,970 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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