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Wildfires in Karibib

Karibib, Namibia, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 14,094 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 86).

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 40° · 8 % · 59 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very extreme 42° · 7 % · 58 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very extreme 40° · 10 % · 51 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very extreme 35° · 15 % · 55 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very extreme 36° · 10 % · 57 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very extreme 40° · 11 % · 59 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very extreme 36° · 18 % · 59 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 37° · 18 % · 58 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

14,094
hectares burned
1.0 %
of its area
5
fires
14,588
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Karibib

  1. 2,518 ha Karibib fire, 27 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,095 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 3,420 ha Karibib fire, 23 August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,413 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 3,862 ha Karibib fire, 18 July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,853 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 2,042 ha Karibib fire, 4 July 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,039 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 2,252 ha Karibib fire, September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,308 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).