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Wildfires in Kongola

Kongola, Namibia, has had 56 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 197,581 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 39% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 61).

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 22 Extreme 40° · 10 % · 35 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Extreme 40° · 9 % · 42 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Moderate 38° · 18 % · 42 km/h
  4. Sun 25 High 35° · 22 % · 40 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very high 36° · 17 % · 37 km/h
  6. Tue 27 High 37° · 19 % · 35 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very high 38° · 14 % · 32 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very high 38° · 17 % · 43 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

197,581
hectares burned
39 %
of its area
56
fires
5,063
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kongola

  1. 10 ha Mukwe fire, 16 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,152 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 3,241 ha Kongola fire, September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,223 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 2,317 ha Kongola fire, 18 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,305 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 1,890 ha Kongola fire, 8 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,046 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 2,154 ha Kongola fire, 1 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,140 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 3,023 ha Kongola fire, July 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,007 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,118 ha Kongola fire, 16 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,105 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 2,122 ha Kongola fire, 15 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,109 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,530 ha Kongola fire, 8 September 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,518 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 3,639 ha Kongola fire, 6 September 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 6,027 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 14,861 ha Kongola fire, 2 September 2025 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 28,667 ha in total · 20 days
  12. 10,951 ha Kongola fire, 28 August 2025 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 15,543 ha in total · 24 days
  13. 2,296 ha Kongola fire, 22 August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,284 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 9,550 ha Kongola fire, July 2024 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 9,541 ha in total · 27 days
  15. 1,985 ha Kongola fire, September 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,079 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 2,262 ha Kongola fire, 17 June 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,248 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 4,271 ha Kongola fire, 15 June 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,243 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 2,128 ha Kongola fire, 30 May 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,117 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 4,175 ha Kongola fire, 22 May 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,155 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 2,821 ha Kongola fire, October 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,045 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 3,160 ha Kongola fire, 12 September 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,140 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 3,252 ha Kongola fire, 4 September 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,232 ha in total · 9 days
  23. 15,284 ha Kongola fire, 3 September 2022 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 15,245 ha in total · 13 days
  24. 1,839 ha Kongola fire, 16 August 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,214 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 2,028 ha Kongola fire, 11 August 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,019 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 5,452 ha Kongola fire, September 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,444 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 2,581 ha Kongola fire, August 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,570 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 2,414 ha Kongola fire, July 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,399 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 2,836 ha Kongola fire, October 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,831 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 2,557 ha Kongola fire, 18 August 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,544 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 2,017 ha Kongola fire, 12 August 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,039 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 5,455 ha Kongola fire, 11 August 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,428 ha in total · 10 days
  33. 2,619 ha Kongola fire, 10 August 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,066 ha in total · 7 days
  34. 5,058 ha Kongola fire, 16 September 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 6,557 ha in total · 9 days
  35. 3,181 ha Kongola fire, 14 September 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,194 ha in total · 6 days
  36. 2,280 ha Kongola fire, 14 September 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,269 ha in total · 8 days
  37. 2,658 ha Kongola fire, 13 September 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,721 ha in total · 7 days
  38. 2,928 ha Kongola fire, 12 September 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,912 ha in total · 5 days
  39. 3,396 ha Kongola fire, 23 August 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,380 ha in total · 7 days
  40. 3,986 ha Kongola fire, 7 August 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,966 ha in total · 10 days
  41. 2,418 ha Kongola fire, 29 July 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,407 ha in total · 8 days
  42. 1,598 ha Kongola fire, 7 July 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,008 ha in total · 6 days
  43. 2,074 ha Kongola fire, 30 September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,063 ha in total · 1 day
  44. 2,030 ha Kongola fire, 19 September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,018 ha in total · 4 days
  45. 2,836 ha Kongola fire, 18 September 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,691 ha in total · 4 days
  46. 2,297 ha Kongola fire, 14 September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,288 ha in total · 4 days
  47. 2,324 ha Kongola fire, 13 September 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,309 ha in total · 6 days
  48. 5,727 ha Kongola fire, 11 September 2018 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,071 ha in total · 6 days
  49. 6,061 ha Kongola fire, 17 September 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 6,027 ha in total · 10 days
  50. 1,950 ha Kongola fire, 12 September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,284 ha in total · 4 days
  51. 2,616 ha Kongola fire, 10 September 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,604 ha in total · 5 days
  52. 2,966 ha Kongola fire, 24 August 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,950 ha in total · 2 days
  53. 2,628 ha Kongola fire, 13 August 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,614 ha in total · 6 days
  54. 2,210 ha Kongola fire, 6 August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,195 ha in total · 2 days
  55. 2,179 ha Kongola fire, July 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,168 ha in total · 5 days
  56. 2,342 ha Kongola fire, May 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,328 ha in total · 4 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).