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Wildfires in Epupa

Epupa, Namibia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 7,955 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.3% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 65).

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 38° · 8 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 38° · 9 % · 44 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 36° · 15 % · 38 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 32° · 24 % · 45 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 34° · 20 % · 38 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 18 % · 48 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 36° · 10 % · 47 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 35° · 16 % · 50 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

7,955
hectares burned
0.3 %
of its area
2
fires
23,573
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Epupa

  1. 4,771 ha Epupa fire, October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,751 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 3,185 ha Epupa fire, August 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,173 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).