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Wildfires in Omundaungilo

Omundaungilo, Namibia, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2017: 2,096 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.4% 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 Very extreme 39° · 9 % · 59 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 39° · 9 % · 37 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 38° · 19 % · 57 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 27 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 35° · 24 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 24 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 33° · 30 % · 42 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 29 % · 30 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

2,096
hectares burned
3.4 %
of its area
1
fires
622
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Omundaungilo

  1. 2,096 ha Eenhana fire, October 2017 3.4% of the municipality · 3,337 ha in total · 6 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).