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Wildfires in Katima Mulilo Rural

Katima Mulilo Rural, Namibia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 4,098 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 42).

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. Sat 24 Extreme 37° · 22 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 35° · 22 % · 35 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very high 35° · 19 % · 37 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 18 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 37° · 15 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very high 37° · 20 % · 42 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 27 % · 47 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very high 36° · 21 % · 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

4,098
hectares burned
2.1 %
of its area
2
fires
1,917
km²

How many times has Katima Mulilo Rural burned?

Katima Mulilo Rural has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2026. The most recent: Katima Mulilo Rural fire, August 2026, with 2,025 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,098 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,223 hectares, 1.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
4,098
cumulative ha
3,223
distinct ha

Fires larger than 2,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Namibia →

Fires that entered Katima Mulilo Rural

  1. 2,025 ha Katima Mulilo Rural fire, August 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,012 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 2,073 ha Katima Mulilo Rural fire, October 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,061 ha in total · 3 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).

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