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Wildfires in Okahao

Okahao, Namibia, has had 34 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 268,809 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 27% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 66).

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. Sat 24 Extreme 40° · 7 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Extreme 39° · 13 % · 44 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 36° · 17 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Extreme 37° · 9 % · 31 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Extreme 38° · 6 % · 64 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Extreme 38° · 6 % · 45 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very extreme 39° · 8 % · 45 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Extreme 39° · 14 % · 40 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

268,809
hectares burned
27 %
of its area
34
fires
9,956
km²

How many times has Okahao burned?

Okahao has burned 34 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Okahao fire, September 2026, with 11,296 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 7× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 21× 25
  11. 4× 26
34
fires
5
years with fire
268,809
cumulative ha
20 Sept 2026
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 Okahao

  1. 11,296 ha Okahao fire, September 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 11,265 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 196 ha Tsandi fire, September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,790 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 3,618 ha Okahao fire, 23 June 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,591 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 2,546 ha Okahao fire, 23 June 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,526 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 28 ha Tsandi fire, 24 November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,367 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 2,793 ha Okahao fire, 30 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,626 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 2,146 ha Okahao fire, 28 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,139 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 23,467 ha Okahao fire, 27 September 2025 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 23,379 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 4,047 ha Okahao fire, 26 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,024 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 10,825 ha Okahao fire, 25 September 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 10,771 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 4,413 ha Okahao fire, 25 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,388 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 5,998 ha Okahao fire, 25 September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,953 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 47,390 ha Okahao fire, 25 September 2025 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 85,441 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 3,160 ha Okahao fire, 24 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,143 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 2,466 ha Okahao fire, 24 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,451 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 2,697 ha Okahao fire, 24 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,987 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 11,835 ha Okahao fire, 24 September 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 11,769 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 2,162 ha Okahao fire, 24 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,149 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 2,357 ha Okahao fire, 24 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,342 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 3,330 ha Okahao fire, 24 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,832 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 41,023 ha Okahao fire, 23 September 2025 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 44,937 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 11,473 ha Okahao fire, 23 September 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 11,398 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 5,093 ha Okahao fire, 23 September 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,051 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 2,392 ha Okahao fire, 23 September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,385 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 31,899 ha Kamanjab fire, 22 September 2025 3.2% of the municipality · 35,444 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 2,666 ha Okahao fire, September 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,759 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 247 ha Otamanzi fire, 25 November 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,493 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 2,766 ha Okahao fire, 21 November 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,747 ha in total · 3 days
  29. 5,059 ha Okahao fire, 20 November 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,032 ha in total · 2 days
  30. 2,053 ha Okahao fire, 19 November 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,040 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 9,623 ha Okahao fire, 18 November 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 9,560 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 2,593 ha Okahao fire, 31 August 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,584 ha in total · 4 days
  33. 1,995 ha Okahao fire, 31 August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,138 ha in total · 1 day
  34. 3,157 ha Okahao fire, September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,146 ha in total · 3 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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