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Wildfires in Omatako

Omatako, Namibia, has had 21 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 67,902 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 50).

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° · 8 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 37° · 9 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 36° · 15 % · 39 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 34° · 15 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 9 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 35° · 7 % · 45 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 36° · 10 % · 44 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 36° · 20 % · 55 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

67,902
hectares burned
2.7 %
of its area
21
fires
24,990
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Omatako

  1. 3,903 ha Omatako fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,867 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 5,022 ha Omatako fire, September 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,089 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 2,540 ha Omatako fire, 22 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,515 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 3,445 ha Omatako fire, 7 September 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,444 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 2,081 ha Omatako fire, January 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,059 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 338 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 29 November 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,394 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,287 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 28 November 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 4,485 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 281 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 27 November 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 4,223 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 8,930 ha Omatako fire, 27 November 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 11,412 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 11,668 ha Omatako fire, 23 November 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 11,545 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 2,567 ha Omatako fire, 25 October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,561 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 2,067 ha Omatako fire, 12 October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,051 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 2,136 ha Omatako fire, 11 October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,118 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 3,082 ha Omatako fire, September 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,080 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 4,291 ha Omatako fire, August 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,259 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 1 ha Okahandja fire, July 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,479 ha in total · 7 days
  17. 3,122 ha Omatako fire, June 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,320 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 2,166 ha Omatako fire, October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,164 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 3,173 ha Omatako fire, 22 September 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,147 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 2,800 ha Omatako fire, 15 September 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,796 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 3,002 ha Omatako fire, 9 September 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,986 ha in total · 2 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).