Wildfires in Ngamiland West

Name: Ngamiland West
Address: BW

Ngamiland West, Botswana, has had 402 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 2,350,140 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 40% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 65).

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

Thu 22 Extreme 40° · 8 % · 32 km/h
Fri 23 Extreme 38° · 10 % · 46 km/h
Sat 24 Extreme 38° · 14 % · 48 km/h
Sun 25 Extreme 37° · 20 % · 43 km/h
Mon 26 Extreme 38° · 16 % · 42 km/h
Tue 27 Extreme 38° · 16 % · 34 km/h
Wed 28 Extreme 36° · 20 % · 36 km/h
Thu 29 Extreme 38° · 16 % · 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.

Since 2016

2,350,140
hectares burned: 40 %
of its area: 402
fires: 59,065
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Ngamiland West

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).

Fire danger, today and the coming days

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

Hectares per year

Fires that entered Ngamiland West

Where this data comes from