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Wildfires in Okarukambe (Steinhausen)

Okarukambe (Steinhausen), Namibia, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 55,076 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.1% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 37).

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. Sun 1 Extreme 34° · 18 % · 58 km/h
  2. Mon 2 High 32° · 20 % · 39 km/h
  3. Tue 3 High 35° · 18 % · 32 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very high 37° · 13 % · 33 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Extreme 38° · 10 % · 58 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very high 33° · 18 % · 43 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very high 35° · 9 % · 43 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very high 37° · 11 % · 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

55,076
hectares burned
3.1 %
of its area
9
fires
17,533
km²

How many times has Okarukambe (Steinhausen) burned?

Okarukambe (Steinhausen) has burned 9 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2025. The most recent: Okarukambe (Steinhausen) fire, September 2025, with 2,151 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
9
fires
5
years with fire
55,076
cumulative ha
13 Sept 2025
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 Okarukambe (Steinhausen)

  1. 2,151 ha Okarukambe (Steinhausen) fire, September 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,145 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 2,292 ha Okarukambe (Steinhausen) fire, October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,278 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 2,124 ha Okarukambe (Steinhausen) fire, 30 September 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,112 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 31,582 ha Okarukambe (Steinhausen) fire, 30 September 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 31,405 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 3,101 ha Okarukambe (Steinhausen) fire, 23 November 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,079 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 6,796 ha Okarukambe (Steinhausen) fire, 23 November 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,748 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 2,490 ha Okarukambe (Steinhausen) fire, September 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,483 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2,301 ha Okarukambe (Steinhausen) fire, October 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,292 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 2,239 ha Okarukambe (Steinhausen) fire, October 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,225 ha in total · 1 day

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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