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Wildfires in Omaruru

Omaruru, Namibia, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 15,941 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.9% 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° · 6 % · 51 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 37° · 9 % · 54 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 36° · 17 % · 51 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 33° · 17 % · 44 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 34° · 8 % · 45 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 36° · 7 % · 51 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 36° · 8 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 36° · 23 % · 44 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

15,941
hectares burned
1.9 %
of its area
7
fires
8,478
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Omaruru

  1. 4,118 ha Omaruru fire, September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,098 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 4,254 ha Omaruru fire, August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,232 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 582 ha Karibib fire, 27 August 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,095 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 743 ha Daures fire, 23 July 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 14,164 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 3,537 ha Omaruru fire, July 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,560 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 57 ha Karibib fire, September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,308 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 2,651 ha Omaruru fire, September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,773 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).