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Wildfires in Otamanzi

Otamanzi, Namibia, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 108,696 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% 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° · 7 % · 52 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 40° · 8 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 39° · 13 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 33° · 21 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 37° · 15 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 38° · 11 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 36° · 13 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 35° · 25 % · 49 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

108,696
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
9
fires
4,205
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Otamanzi

  1. 4,781 ha Otamanzi fire, September 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,761 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 51,647 ha Otamanzi fire, September 2025 where it started 12% of the municipality · 61,847 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 38,442 ha Okahao fire, 25 September 2025 9.1% of the municipality · 85,441 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 4,232 ha Okahao fire, 23 September 2025 1.0% of the municipality · 44,937 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 2,264 ha Otamanzi fire, 25 November 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,493 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 2,029 ha Otamanzi fire, 23 November 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,875 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 2,097 ha Otamanzi fire, 22 November 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,085 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 3,053 ha Otamanzi fire, 22 November 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,033 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 150 ha Okahao fire, 31 August 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,138 ha in total · 1 day

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).