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Wildfires in Guinas

Guinas, Namibia, has had 39 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 158,088 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 75).

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° · 9 % · 58 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very extreme 39° · 8 % · 55 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 38° · 14 % · 34 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 34° · 25 % · 40 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 35° · 17 % · 38 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 36° · 12 % · 34 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 34° · 23 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 21 % · 34 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

158,088
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
39
fires
10,279
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Guinas

  1. 126 ha Omuthiyagwiipundi fire, September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 4,501 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 916 ha Tsumeb fire, September 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 4,043 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 5,608 ha Guinas fire, August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,578 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2,895 ha Guinas fire, July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,880 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 6,454 ha Guinas fire, June 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,407 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 148 ha Omuthiyagwiipundi fire, 18 June 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,862 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 749 ha Tsumeb fire, June 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,254 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 1,486 ha Tsumeb fire, October 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 4,025 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 3,241 ha Guinas fire, September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,217 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 2,453 ha Guinas fire, October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,436 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 226 ha Tsumeb fire, October 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,984 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 2,636 ha Guinas fire, 21 September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,154 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 2,797 ha Guinas fire, 20 September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,776 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 2,990 ha Guinas fire, 16 September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,143 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 6,095 ha Guinas fire, 16 September 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,062 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 3,337 ha Guinas fire, 16 September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,319 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 2,978 ha Guinas fire, 13 September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,959 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 2,299 ha Guinas fire, 11 December 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,293 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 3,422 ha Guinas fire, 9 December 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,407 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 3,635 ha Guinas fire, November 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,619 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 3,639 ha Guinas fire, 20 October 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,617 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 2,659 ha Guinas fire, 9 October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 13,246 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 1,083 ha Guinas fire, 8 October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,909 ha in total · 8 days
  24. 2,769 ha Guinas fire, 8 October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 40,318 ha in total · 14 days
  25. 10,187 ha Guinas fire, 4 October 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 13,809 ha in total · 9 days
  26. 37,680 ha Guinas fire, September 2020 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 37,481 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 8,766 ha Guinas fire, August 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 8,723 ha in total · 7 days
  28. 2,621 ha Guinas fire, November 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,600 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 4,545 ha Guinas fire, 20 October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,731 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 6,034 ha Guinas fire, 17 October 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,993 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 3,184 ha Tsumeb fire, October 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 7,550 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 1,853 ha Grootfontein fire, 14 October 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 16,323 ha in total · 8 days
  33. 2,849 ha Guinas fire, 9 October 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,833 ha in total · 2 days
  34. 349 ha Tsumeb fire, September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,702 ha in total · 3 days
  35. 4,000 ha Guinas fire, 13 October 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,335 ha in total · 6 days
  36. 2,571 ha Guinas fire, 12 October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,565 ha in total · 2 days
  37. 2,378 ha Guinas fire, 9 October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,371 ha in total · 6 days
  38. 3,277 ha Guinas fire, 9 October 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,269 ha in total · 4 days
  39. 3,155 ha Guinas fire, 8 October 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,146 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).