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Wildfires in Kahenge

Kahenge, Namibia, has had 47 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 159,957 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% 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 Very extreme 38° · 10 % · 54 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 39° · 10 % · 48 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 37° · 19 % · 45 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 25 % · 43 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 34° · 25 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 34° · 26 % · 54 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 32° · 30 % · 37 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 37° · 18 % · 41 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

159,957
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
47
fires
8,747
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kahenge

  1. 1,944 ha Kahenge fire, 15 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,276 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 2,260 ha Kahenge fire, 4 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,250 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 4,427 ha Mpungu fire, 25 August 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 9,223 ha in total · 33 days
  4. 657 ha Kapako fire, 23 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,709 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 3,712 ha Kapako fire, 26 September 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 5,012 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 2,168 ha Kahenge fire, 18 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,158 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,637 ha Kahenge fire, 18 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,623 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 2,736 ha Kahenge fire, 15 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,725 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,767 ha Kahenge fire, 3 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,734 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 8,688 ha Kahenge fire, August 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,655 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 3,014 ha Kahenge fire, September 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,002 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 2,554 ha Kahenge fire, August 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,545 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 919 ha Kapako fire, July 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 2,726 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 401 ha Kapako fire, 3 October 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 8,127 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 27 ha Mpungu fire, October 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,235 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 2,206 ha Kahenge fire, 7 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,197 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 2,611 ha Kahenge fire, 6 October 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,597 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 8,805 ha Kahenge fire, September 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,766 ha in total · 17 days
  19. 7,155 ha Kapako fire, 10 September 2022 0.8% of the municipality · 14,816 ha in total · 14 days
  20. 2,284 ha Kahenge fire, October 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,273 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 5,953 ha Kahenge fire, September 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,930 ha in total · 8 days
  22. 2,055 ha Kahenge fire, October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,942 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 3,321 ha Kahenge fire, 30 September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,309 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 2,573 ha Kahenge fire, 22 September 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,561 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 9,932 ha Kahenge fire, 19 September 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 9,885 ha in total · 14 days
  26. 3,584 ha Kahenge fire, 14 September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,571 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 2,562 ha Kahenge fire, 9 September 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,553 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 2,572 ha Kahenge fire, 8 September 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,234 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 3,985 ha Kahenge fire, 14 October 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,968 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 2,604 ha Kahenge fire, 14 October 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,604 ha in total · 6 days
  31. 397 ha Mpungu fire, August 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 13,507 ha in total · 22 days
  32. 4,121 ha Kahenge fire, October 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,100 ha in total · 4 days
  33. 3,310 ha Kahenge fire, September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,298 ha in total · 3 days
  34. 2,565 ha Kahenge fire, August 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,553 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 2,374 ha Kahenge fire, 16 October 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,360 ha in total · 2 days
  36. 4,228 ha Kahenge fire, 16 October 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,203 ha in total · 2 days
  37. 3,385 ha Kahenge fire, 8 October 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,362 ha in total · 5 days
  38. 3,566 ha Kahenge fire, 30 September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,542 ha in total · 4 days
  39. 3,780 ha Kahenge fire, 28 September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,400 ha in total · 5 days
  40. 2,033 ha Kahenge fire, 24 September 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,025 ha in total · 3 days
  41. 9,687 ha Kahenge fire, 15 September 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 9,649 ha in total · 7 days
  42. 2,675 ha Kahenge fire, 14 September 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,662 ha in total · 4 days
  43. 3,341 ha Kahenge fire, 12 September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,324 ha in total · 7 days
  44. 4,691 ha Kahenge fire, 14 August 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,669 ha in total · 9 days
  45. 3,299 ha Kahenge fire, 14 August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,285 ha in total · 3 days
  46. 3,898 ha Kahenge fire, 7 August 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,875 ha in total · 4 days
  47. 2,495 ha Kahenge fire, 3 August 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,482 ha in total · 2 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).