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Wildfires in Mahalapye

Mahalapye, Botswana, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 59,708 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 46).

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. Sun 25 Very high 35° · 15 % · 40 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very high 35° · 13 % · 31 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 16 % · 32 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 12 % · 39 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Extreme 34° · 21 % · 40 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Extreme 34° · 21 % · 39 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Extreme 35° · 21 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very high 35° · 22 % · 30 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

59,708
hectares burned
5.2 %
of its area
18
fires
11,501
km²

How many times has Mahalapye burned?

Mahalapye has burned 18 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Mahalapye fire, August 2026, with 1,873 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 7× 22
  8. 6× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
18
fires
5
years with fire
59,708
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 Mahalapye

  1. 1,873 ha Mahalapye fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,246 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 2,141 ha Mahalapye fire, November 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,133 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 931 ha Kweneng North fire, 13 November 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,556 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 487 ha Serowe fire, October 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 4,296 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 2,825 ha Mahalapye fire, October 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,808 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 3,416 ha Mahalapye fire, August 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,416 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 946 ha Kgatleng fire, August 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 8,409 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 13,560 ha Mahalapye fire, October 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 18,282 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 3,444 ha Mahalapye fire, 19 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,427 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 2,020 ha Mahalapye fire, 18 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,010 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 2,914 ha Mahalapye fire, 18 September 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,897 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 3,743 ha Mahalapye fire, 17 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,726 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 5,489 ha Mahalapye fire, 17 September 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,464 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 3,502 ha Mahalapye fire, 16 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,487 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 6,695 ha Mahalapye fire, October 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,669 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 1,875 ha Mahalapye fire, September 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,090 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 1,399 ha Machaneng fire, 16 September 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 3,858 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 2,448 ha Mahalapye fire, July 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,438 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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