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Wildfires in Epukiro

Epukiro, Namibia, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 95,012 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.7% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 63).

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 Extreme 36° · 11 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 36° · 11 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 36° · 14 % · 35 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 36° · 22 % · 44 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 34° · 19 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 33° · 19 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 34° · 24 % · 38 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 36° · 12 % · 46 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

95,012
hectares burned
8.7 %
of its area
18
fires
10,960
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Epukiro

  1. 16,858 ha Epukiro fire, September 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 16,790 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 6,608 ha Epukiro fire, September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,617 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 2,328 ha Epukiro fire, October 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,321 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 111 ha Tsumkwe fire, 28 September 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,379 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 111 ha Tsumkwe fire, 25 September 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,586 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 19,649 ha Epukiro fire, 24 September 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 19,575 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,454 ha Epukiro fire, 18 September 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,937 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 6,703 ha Epukiro fire, 11 September 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 7,804 ha in total · 9 days
  9. 1,338 ha Epukiro fire, 10 September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 19,876 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 10,835 ha Epukiro fire, 10 September 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 10,823 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 3,552 ha Epukiro fire, 8 September 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,548 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 3,163 ha Epukiro fire, August 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,139 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 2,664 ha Epukiro fire, October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,662 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 10,184 ha Epukiro fire, 22 September 2022 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 10,162 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 2,834 ha Epukiro fire, 11 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,831 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 2,361 ha Epukiro fire, November 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,352 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 2,653 ha Epukiro fire, October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,644 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 604 ha Tsumkwe fire, 23 September 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 5,736 ha in total · 3 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).