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Wildfires in Epembe

Epembe, Namibia, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2020: 567 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 78).

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 23 Very extreme 38° · 10 % · 53 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very extreme 39° · 10 % · 47 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 37° · 18 % · 56 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 34° · 30 % · 46 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 34° · 29 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 35° · 25 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 27 % · 44 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 30 % · 31 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

567
hectares burned
0.3 %
of its area
1
fires
1,820
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Epembe

  1. 567 ha Okankolo fire, 27 October 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 2,328 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 OCHA COD-AB/Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) (Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).