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Wildfires in Okankolo

Okankolo, Namibia, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 14,497 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.1% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 64).

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 extreme 38° · 10 % · 48 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 39° · 10 % · 44 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 38° · 16 % · 33 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 35° · 22 % · 55 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 35° · 23 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 25 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 34° · 25 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 36° · 24 % · 35 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

14,497
hectares burned
4.1 %
of its area
11
fires
3,570
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Okankolo

  1. 84 ha Mpungu fire, August 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 4,621 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 1,773 ha Okankolo fire, 27 October 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,328 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 2,139 ha Okankolo fire, 23 October 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,129 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 2,501 ha Okankolo fire, 16 October 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,489 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 4,013 ha Okankolo fire, 6 October 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,994 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 4 ha Eengodi fire, September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,703 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,547 ha Okankolo fire, 17 September 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,550 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,086 ha Okankolo fire, 8 September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,793 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 112 ha Eengodi fire, 25 August 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,416 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 237 ha Eengodi fire, 11 August 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 2,004 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 2 ha Mpungu fire, 11 September 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,812 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).