Wildfires in Palapye
Palapye, Botswana, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 17,199 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 40).
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 36° · 16 % · 41 km/h
- Sat 24 Very high 31° · 34 % · 43 km/h
- Sun 25 High 34° · 22 % · 38 km/h
- Mon 26 Very high 36° · 12 % · 34 km/h
- Tue 27 High 38° · 16 % · 33 km/h
- Wed 28 Very high 34° · 25 % · 52 km/h
- Thu 29 Very high 32° · 26 % · 49 km/h
- Fri 30 Very high 30° · 27 % · 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
- 17,199
- hectares burned
- 2.3 %
- of its area
- 5
- fires
- 7,604
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Palapye
- 3,433 ha Bobonong fire, September 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 5,908 ha in total · 4 days
- 2,137 ha Palapye fire, 13 September 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,128 ha in total · 3 days
- 5,870 ha Palapye fire, 2 September 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,839 ha in total · 8 days
- 5,408 ha Palapye fire, September 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,393 ha in total · 3 days
- 350 ha Machaneng fire, October 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,098 ha in total · 1 day
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).