Skip to content
worldfires
NA · Namibia · Otjozondjupa

Wildfires in Okakarara

Okakarara, Namibia, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2022: 1,056 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.1% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 56).

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 37° · 9 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 37° · 9 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 37° · 14 % · 35 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 34° · 20 % · 33 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 27 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 33° · 19 % · 49 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 33° · 23 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 14 % · 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

1,056
hectares burned
0.1 %
of its area
1
fires
14,720
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Okakarara

  1. 1,056 ha Tsumkwe fire, 23 September 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 20,280 ha in total · 5 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).