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Wildfires in Kalahari

Kalahari, Namibia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 7,062 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 45).

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 high 33° · 10 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 34° · 11 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 35° · 12 % · 41 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 34° · 18 % · 48 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 32° · 18 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 33° · 14 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 34° · 19 % · 44 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 35° · 10 % · 38 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

7,062
hectares burned
0.6 %
of its area
3
fires
12,284
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kalahari

  1. 4,108 ha Kalahari fire, October 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,100 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 2,545 ha Kalahari fire, October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,527 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 410 ha Gobabis fire, September 2018 0.0% 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).