Wildfires in Gobabis
Gobabis, Namibia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 13,693 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 41).
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 High 34° · 10 % · 36 km/h
- Sat 24 Very high 36° · 7 % · 39 km/h
- Sun 25 High 37° · 12 % · 47 km/h
- Mon 26 Very high 35° · 16 % · 54 km/h
- Tue 27 High 34° · 14 % · 29 km/h
- Wed 28 Very high 35° · 8 % · 38 km/h
- Thu 29 High 36° · 15 % · 53 km/h
- Fri 30 Very high 37° · 7 % · 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
- 13,693
- hectares burned
- 2.4 %
- of its area
- 5
- fires
- 5,792
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Gobabis
- 3,357 ha Gobabis fire, September 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,343 ha in total · 3 days
- 669 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 2 August 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 3,218 ha in total · 1 day
- 5,020 ha Gobabis fire, October 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,002 ha in total · 2 days
- 1,844 ha Windhoek Rural fire, October 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 5,960 ha in total · 3 days
- 2,803 ha Gobabis fire, September 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,203 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 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).