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Wildfires in Mukwe

Mukwe, Namibia, has had 61 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 191,645 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 35% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 46).

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 39° · 10 % · 52 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 38° · 16 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 36° · 21 % · 42 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 36° · 19 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 37° · 16 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 30° · 31 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 36° · 23 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 20 % · 39 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

191,645
hectares burned
35 %
of its area
61
fires
5,537
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Mukwe

  1. 2,154 ha Mukwe fire, 16 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,152 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 2,071 ha Mukwe fire, 14 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,060 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,964 ha Mukwe fire, 17 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,948 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 2,279 ha Mukwe fire, 2 September 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,268 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 1,802 ha Mukwe fire, 30 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,460 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 2,374 ha Mukwe fire, 29 August 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,610 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 5,417 ha Mukwe fire, 25 August 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,388 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 3,256 ha Mukwe fire, 24 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,241 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 3,296 ha Mukwe fire, 23 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,277 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 3,346 ha Mukwe fire, 22 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,331 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 3,244 ha Mukwe fire, 21 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,227 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 2,825 ha Mukwe fire, 21 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,309 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 1,730 ha Mukwe fire, 17 August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,438 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 2,690 ha Mukwe fire, 7 August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,892 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 1,999 ha Mukwe fire, 10 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,117 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 3,946 ha Mukwe fire, 7 September 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,925 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 2,201 ha Mukwe fire, 6 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,188 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 2,114 ha Mukwe fire, 3 August 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,103 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 4,180 ha Mukwe fire, 1 August 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,156 ha in total · 10 days
  20. 2,279 ha Mukwe fire, 23 September 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,264 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 2,301 ha Mukwe fire, 16 September 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,288 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 2,495 ha Mukwe fire, 11 September 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,482 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 2,047 ha Mukwe fire, 28 July 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,260 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 2,211 ha Mukwe fire, 27 July 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,199 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 2,361 ha Mukwe fire, June 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,348 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 10,720 ha Mukwe fire, May 2023 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 11,557 ha in total · 19 days
  27. 2,250 ha Mukwe fire, April 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,238 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 2,225 ha Mukwe fire, October 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,211 ha in total · 3 days
  29. 2,412 ha Mukwe fire, 23 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,532 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 2,381 ha Mukwe fire, 19 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,366 ha in total · 6 days
  31. 2,455 ha Mukwe fire, 19 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,440 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 2,450 ha Mukwe fire, 7 September 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,437 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 3,296 ha Mukwe fire, 21 September 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,278 ha in total · 7 days
  34. 10,673 ha Mukwe fire, 1 September 2021 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 10,615 ha in total · 7 days
  35. 8,035 ha Mukwe fire, 1 September 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 8,159 ha in total · 7 days
  36. 2,401 ha Mukwe fire, 30 August 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,388 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 3,932 ha Mukwe fire, 29 August 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,910 ha in total · 5 days
  38. 3,146 ha Mukwe fire, 28 August 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,128 ha in total · 7 days
  39. 2,605 ha Mukwe fire, 28 August 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,593 ha in total · 3 days
  40. 2,391 ha Mukwe fire, 20 August 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,380 ha in total · 3 days
  41. 2,317 ha Mukwe fire, 17 August 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,305 ha in total · 5 days
  42. 2,189 ha Mukwe fire, 21 October 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,178 ha in total · 2 days
  43. 2,767 ha Mukwe fire, 6 October 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,753 ha in total · 2 days
  44. 2,176 ha Mukwe fire, 24 September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,163 ha in total · 2 days
  45. 2,168 ha Mukwe fire, 22 September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,427 ha in total · 2 days
  46. 2,067 ha Mukwe fire, October 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,056 ha in total · 2 days
  47. 5,483 ha Mukwe fire, September 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,498 ha in total · 12 days
  48. 4,173 ha Mukwe fire, July 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,154 ha in total · 9 days
  49. 2,174 ha Mukwe fire, October 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,161 ha in total · 5 days
  50. 2,294 ha Mukwe fire, 24 September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,526 ha in total · 4 days
  51. 2,034 ha Mukwe fire, 15 September 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,023 ha in total · 3 days
  52. 2,282 ha Mukwe fire, 15 September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,269 ha in total · 8 days
  53. 1,817 ha Ndiyona fire, 13 September 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 33,278 ha in total · 15 days
  54. 4,879 ha Mukwe fire, 4 September 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,853 ha in total · 19 days
  55. 2,497 ha Mukwe fire, 29 August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,482 ha in total · 9 days
  56. 5,850 ha Mukwe fire, 25 August 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,822 ha in total · 5 days
  57. 2,060 ha Mukwe fire, 13 August 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,238 ha in total · 4 days
  58. 5,004 ha Mukwe fire, 15 September 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,973 ha in total · 7 days
  59. 2,544 ha Mukwe fire, 3 September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,766 ha in total · 2 days
  60. 3,531 ha Mukwe fire, August 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,512 ha in total · 3 days
  61. 2,385 ha Mukwe fire, July 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,370 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).