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Wildfires in Machaneng

Machaneng, Botswana, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 15,654 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.9% 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 23 Extreme 37° · 7 % · 41 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 32° · 30 % · 42 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 34° · 19 % · 41 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 36° · 11 % · 40 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 23 % · 50 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 10 % · 53 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 31° · 28 % · 52 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 31° · 26 % · 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

15,654
hectares burned
2.9 %
of its area
4
fires
5,378
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Machaneng

  1. 3,370 ha Machaneng fire, August 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,353 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,756 ha Machaneng fire, October 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,098 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 8,049 ha Machaneng fire, 16 September 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 8,012 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 2,479 ha Machaneng fire, 16 September 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,858 ha in total · 2 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).