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Wildfires in Okongo

Okongo, Namibia, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 29,775 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.3% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 58).

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 38° · 10 % · 46 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 39° · 11 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 36° · 18 % · 45 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 34° · 24 % · 52 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 34° · 26 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 33° · 33 % · 45 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 31° · 33 % · 49 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 34° · 29 % · 45 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

29,775
hectares burned
6.3 %
of its area
7
fires
4,719
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Okongo

  1. 2,605 ha Okongo fire, September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,592 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 11 ha Mpungu fire, 25 September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 4,183 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 8,227 ha Okongo fire, September 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 8,183 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 932 ha Mpungu fire, 12 September 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 7,070 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 54 ha Mpungu fire, 15 September 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 3,760 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 4,034 ha Okongo fire, 15 September 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,012 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 13,912 ha Okongo fire, 10 September 2016 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 13,838 ha in total · 12 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).