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Wildfires in Okahandja

Okahandja, Namibia, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 30,649 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 44).

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 Very high 36° · 9 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 36° · 9 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 36° · 14 % · 46 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 33° · 16 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 34° · 11 % · 40 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 10 % · 50 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 35° · 14 % · 48 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 35° · 20 % · 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

30,649
hectares burned
5.2 %
of its area
9
fires
5,888
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Okahandja

  1. 7,462 ha Okahandja fire, August 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 7,415 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 2,093 ha Okahandja fire, 25 December 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,080 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,786 ha Okahandja fire, 22 December 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,768 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 2,470 ha Okahandja fire, 18 December 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,453 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 2,073 ha Okahandja fire, November 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,066 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 5,923 ha Okahandja fire, October 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,891 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 2,198 ha Okahandja fire, September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,260 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 2,147 ha Omaruru fire, September 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 4,773 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 3,499 ha Okahandja fire, July 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,479 ha in total · 7 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).