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Wildfires in Grootfontein

Grootfontein, Namibia, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 60,202 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 80).

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 37° · 10 % · 49 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very extreme 38° · 8 % · 46 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 37° · 16 % · 49 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 34° · 22 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 35° · 20 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 34° · 13 % · 46 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 34° · 22 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 36° · 15 % · 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

60,202
hectares burned
5.3 %
of its area
12
fires
11,325
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Grootfontein

  1. 4,375 ha Grootfontein fire, October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,356 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 2,096 ha Grootfontein fire, September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,090 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,325 ha Grootfontein fire, November 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,313 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,426 ha Grootfontein fire, October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,412 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 2,556 ha Grootfontein fire, November 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,545 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,824 ha Grootfontein fire, October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,495 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 20,419 ha Grootfontein fire, September 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 20,343 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 3,210 ha Grootfontein fire, September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,195 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 14,523 ha Grootfontein fire, 14 October 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 16,323 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 2,986 ha Grootfontein fire, 14 October 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,968 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 3,076 ha Grootfontein fire, 10 October 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,063 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 386 ha Otavi fire, October 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,107 ha in total · 4 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).