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Wildfires in Lethlakane

Lethlakane, Botswana, has had 38 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 173,001 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.0% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 59).

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 38° · 11 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 36° · 18 % · 44 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 36° · 20 % · 40 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 37° · 14 % · 40 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 37° · 17 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 33° · 26 % · 43 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 36° · 15 % · 40 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 35° · 17 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

173,001
hectares burned
6.0 %
of its area
38
fires
28,951
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Lethlakane

  1. 2,317 ha Lethlakane fire, 24 July 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,318 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 2,564 ha Lethlakane fire, 11 July 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,553 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 180 ha Ngamiland East fire, 17 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,774 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 3,529 ha Lethlakane fire, October 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,520 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 753 ha Ngamiland East fire, 4 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,069 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 2,863 ha Lethlakane fire, August 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,849 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 2,521 ha Lethlakane fire, June 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,510 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 2,047 ha Lethlakane fire, October 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,033 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 67 ha Ghanzi fire, 28 September 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,602 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 3,910 ha Lethlakane fire, May 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,913 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 2,220 ha Lethlakane fire, November 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,199 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 407 ha Serowe fire, 27 November 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,219 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 2,101 ha Lethlakane fire, 15 October 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,086 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 2,424 ha Lethlakane fire, 14 October 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,408 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 4,243 ha Lethlakane fire, 14 October 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,201 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 3,522 ha Lethlakane fire, September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,503 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 11,159 ha Lethlakane fire, August 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 11,160 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 148 ha Tutume fire, 9 July 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,503 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 2,657 ha Lethlakane fire, 24 June 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,653 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 6,321 ha Lethlakane fire, 23 June 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,306 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 2,156 ha Lethlakane fire, 22 June 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,894 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 10,475 ha Lethlakane fire, 14 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 16,551 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 5,871 ha Lethlakane fire, 3 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,841 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 768 ha Ghanzi fire, 14 August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,474 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 241 ha Ghanzi fire, 10 August 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 7,924 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 4,787 ha Lethlakane fire, 9 August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,763 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 5,308 ha Lethlakane fire, 8 August 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,281 ha in total · 4 days
  28. 3,191 ha Lethlakane fire, 19 October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,573 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 15,013 ha Lethlakane fire, 15 October 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 14,974 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 7,281 ha Lethlakane fire, 10 October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 7,274 ha in total · 8 days
  31. 392 ha Ghanzi fire, 2 October 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,662 ha in total · 2 days
  32. 5,539 ha Lethlakane fire, 2 October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,530 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 2,210 ha Lethlakane fire, November 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,204 ha in total · 1 day
  34. 174 ha Ngamiland East fire, 15 October 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 7,740 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 7,898 ha Lethlakane fire, 26 September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,860 ha in total · 2 days
  36. 43,545 ha Lethlakane fire, 15 September 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 50,507 ha in total · 12 days
  37. 16 ha Ghanzi fire, 1 September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 74,259 ha in total · 18 days
  38. 2,181 ha Lethlakane fire, August 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,170 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).