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Wildfires in Opuwo

Opuwo, Namibia, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 22,529 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.9% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 62).

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 36° · 21 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 39° · 14 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 41° · 13 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 33° · 24 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 37° · 15 % · 49 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 36° · 14 % · 52 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 34° · 18 % · 44 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 35° · 24 % · 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

22,529
hectares burned
0.9 %
of its area
2
fires
25,894
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Opuwo

  1. 5,258 ha Opuwo fire, October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 5,220 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 17,271 ha Opuwo fire, August 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 17,184 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).