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Wildfires in Ngwaketse Central

Ngwaketse Central, Botswana, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 29,660 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 49).

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 30 Extreme 32° · 22 % · 52 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very high 34° · 18 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very high 35° · 17 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 2 High 32° · 26 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very high 34° · 22 % · 48 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Extreme 36° · 20 % · 57 km/h
  7. Thu 5 High 36° · 18 % · 57 km/h
  8. Fri 6 High 34° · 32 % · 51 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

29,660
hectares burned
6.0 %
of its area
7
fires
4,928
km²

How many times has Ngwaketse Central burned?

Ngwaketse Central has burned 7 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Ngwaketse Central fire, 27 September 2023, with 483 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
2
years with fire
29,660
cumulative ha
27 Sept 2023
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 Ngwaketse Central

  1. 483 ha Ngwaketse Central fire, 27 September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,418 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 2,359 ha Ngwaketse Central fire, 18 September 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,348 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 4,754 ha Ngwaketse Central fire, 4 August 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,738 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 4,794 ha Ngwaketse Central fire, 4 August 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,776 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 721 ha Ngwaketse Central fire, October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,649 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 678 ha Ngwaketse North fire, 22 September 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 2,917 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 15,870 ha Ngwaketse Central fire, September 2022 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 22,119 ha in total · 15 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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