Wildfires in Masungu
Masungu, Botswana, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 9,738 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 41).
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- Fri 23 Extreme 35° · 19 % · 48 km/h
- Sat 24 Very high 31° · 37 % · 49 km/h
- Sun 25 Very high 34° · 19 % · 38 km/h
- Mon 26 Very high 36° · 13 % · 29 km/h
- Tue 27 Moderate 37° · 18 % · 40 km/h
- Wed 28 High 31° · 36 % · 48 km/h
- Thu 29 High 29° · 39 % · 46 km/h
- Fri 30 High 31° · 21 % · 45 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
- 9,738
- hectares burned
- 1.8 %
- of its area
- 4
- fires
- 5,369
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Masungu
- 2,501 ha Masungu fire, October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,482 ha in total · 6 days
- 2,457 ha Masungu fire, September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,439 ha in total · 3 days
- 2,141 ha Masungu fire, August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,129 ha in total · 3 days
- 2,638 ha Masungu fire, August 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,625 ha in total · 5 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).