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Wildfires in Mpungu

Mpungu, Namibia, has had 54 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 214,737 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% of its area. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 70).

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 Extreme 38° · 10 % · 48 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very extreme 39° · 11 % · 44 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 37° · 17 % · 40 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 23 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 34° · 25 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 33° · 31 % · 45 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 31° · 32 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 36° · 21 % · 42 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

214,737
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
54
fires
8,260
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Mpungu

  1. 3,674 ha Mpungu fire, 15 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,666 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 5,157 ha Mpungu fire, 15 October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,141 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 2,300 ha Mpungu fire, 3 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,295 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,444 ha Mpungu fire, 1 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,914 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 4,825 ha Mpungu fire, 25 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 9,223 ha in total · 28 days
  6. 6,958 ha Mpungu fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,939 ha in total · 21 days
  7. 2,852 ha Mpungu fire, October 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,847 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 2,344 ha Mpungu fire, 28 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,337 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,781 ha Mpungu fire, 25 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,771 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 2,534 ha Mpungu fire, 20 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,522 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 4,400 ha Mpungu fire, 19 September 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,373 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 2,075 ha Mpungu fire, 18 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,068 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 2,042 ha Mpungu fire, 15 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,034 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 2,287 ha Mpungu fire, 11 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,277 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 4,068 ha Mpungu fire, 11 September 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,057 ha in total · 11 days
  16. 4,557 ha Mpungu fire, August 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,621 ha in total · 11 days
  17. 2,216 ha Mpungu fire, October 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,235 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 2,513 ha Mpungu fire, September 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,507 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 2,760 ha Mpungu fire, 31 August 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,750 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 3,884 ha Mpungu fire, 17 August 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,871 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 5,618 ha Mpungu fire, 27 September 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,604 ha in total · 14 days
  22. 2,773 ha Mpungu fire, 20 September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,764 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 4,181 ha Mpungu fire, 25 September 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,183 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 6,158 ha Mpungu fire, 12 September 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 7,070 ha in total · 8 days
  25. 2,737 ha Mpungu fire, 12 September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,716 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 3,927 ha Mpungu fire, 21 October 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,906 ha in total · 3 days
  27. 2,652 ha Mpungu fire, 21 October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,638 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 2,908 ha Mpungu fire, 18 October 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,894 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 2,400 ha Mpungu fire, 14 October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,394 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 4,337 ha Mpungu fire, 6 October 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,303 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 3,990 ha Mpungu fire, 3 October 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,961 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 2,069 ha Mpungu fire, 1 October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,055 ha in total · 2 days
  33. 4,609 ha Mpungu fire, 29 September 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,579 ha in total · 4 days
  34. 2,456 ha Mpungu fire, 29 September 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,446 ha in total · 9 days
  35. 1,679 ha Kahenge fire, 8 September 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 4,234 ha in total · 4 days
  36. 4,707 ha Mpungu fire, 8 October 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,693 ha in total · 10 days
  37. 10,431 ha Mpungu fire, 4 October 2018 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 10,404 ha in total · 14 days
  38. 13,154 ha Mpungu fire, August 2018 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 13,507 ha in total · 22 days
  39. 3,083 ha Mpungu fire, 16 October 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,066 ha in total · 2 days
  40. 3,017 ha Mpungu fire, 15 October 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,003 ha in total · 6 days
  41. 4,094 ha Mpungu fire, 13 October 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,079 ha in total · 6 days
  42. 5,263 ha Mpungu fire, 12 October 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,234 ha in total · 7 days
  43. 1,654 ha Kahenge fire, 28 September 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 5,400 ha in total · 5 days
  44. 6,951 ha Mpungu fire, 28 September 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,922 ha in total · 4 days
  45. 2,093 ha Mpungu fire, 26 September 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,089 ha in total · 8 days
  46. 14,907 ha Eengodi fire, 26 September 2016 1.8% of the municipality · 18,159 ha in total · 11 days
  47. 3,810 ha Mpungu fire, 23 September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,803 ha in total · 6 days
  48. 2,233 ha Mpungu fire, 16 September 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,222 ha in total · 9 days
  49. 3,719 ha Mpungu fire, 15 September 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,760 ha in total · 4 days
  50. 2,731 ha Mpungu fire, 13 September 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,720 ha in total · 10 days
  51. 3,827 ha Mpungu fire, 11 September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,812 ha in total · 5 days
  52. 4,427 ha Mpungu fire, 10 September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,411 ha in total · 10 days
  53. 2,791 ha Mpungu fire, 8 September 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,784 ha in total · 2 days
  54. 2,683 ha Mpungu fire, August 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,676 ha in total · 6 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).