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Wildfires in Karasburg

Karasburg, Namibia, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2022: 4,501 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 48).

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 High 33° · 14 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 38° · 8 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 38° · 10 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 30° · 16 % · 57 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 32° · 7 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 7 % · 34 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 39° · 4 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 40° · 4 % · 36 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

4,501
hectares burned
0.1 %
of its area
1
fires
38,458
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Karasburg

  1. 4,501 ha Karasburg fire, October 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 6,336 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).