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Wildfires in Keetmanshoop Rural

Keetmanshoop Rural, Namibia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 4,068 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.1% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 52).

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. Thu 5 Very extreme 37° · 9 % · 59 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Extreme 32° · 12 % · 39 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very high 30° · 10 % · 37 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Very extreme 33° · 10 % · 38 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very extreme 39° · 8 % · 41 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Extreme 41° · 8 % · 39 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Very extreme 40° · 7 % · 42 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Extreme 38° · 7 % · 54 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Keetmanshoop Rural: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

4,068
hectares burned
0.1 %
of its area
2
fires
38,048
km²

How many times has Keetmanshoop Rural burned?

Keetmanshoop Rural has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2022. The most recent: Keetmanshoop Rural fire, December 2022, with 2,231 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
4,068
cumulative ha
9 Dec 2022
most recent

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 Keetmanshoop Rural

  1. 2,231 ha Keetmanshoop Rural fire, December 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,238 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,837 ha Karasburg fire, October 2022 0.0% 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).

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