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Wildfires in South East

South East, Botswana, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2022: 3,284 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.7% 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. Thu 12 Very high 37° · 12 % · 30 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Very high 35° · 18 % · 37 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Very high 34° · 25 % · 47 km/h
  4. Sun 15 High 30° · 37 % · 44 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Low 32° · 25 % · 41 km/h
  6. Tue 17 High 32° · 32 % · 43 km/h
  7. Wed 18 High 31° · 31 % · 51 km/h
  8. Thu 19 High 34° · 20 % · 32 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in South East: hourly forecast Today, 4 µg/m³ of PM2.5 (×0.3 the WHO guideline)

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,284
hectares burned
4.7 %
of its area
1
fires
693
km²

How many times has South East burned?

South East has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2022. The most recent: South East fire, September 2022, with 3,284 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
1
fires
1
years with fire
3,284
cumulative ha
18 Sept 2022
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 South East

  1. 3,284 ha South East fire, September 2022 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 3,272 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).

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