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Wildfires in Otavi

Otavi, Namibia, has had 38 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 181,081 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 58).

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° · 8 % · 55 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 36° · 9 % · 52 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 35° · 14 % · 42 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 29° · 29 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 31° · 20 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 33° · 17 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 32° · 22 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 35° · 15 % · 37 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

181,081
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
38
fires
14,318
km²

How many times has Otavi burned?

Otavi has burned 38 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Otavi fire, October 2026, with 2,323 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 181,081 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 155,367 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 9× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 13× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11. 6× 26
38
fires
8
years with fire
181,081
cumulative ha
155,367
distinct ha

Fires larger than 2,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Namibia →

Fires that entered Otavi

  1. 2,323 ha Otavi fire, October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,314 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 2,758 ha Otavi fire, 18 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,749 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 16,758 ha Outjo fire, 4 September 2026 1.2% of the municipality · 207,324 ha in total · 28 days
  4. 19,612 ha Otavi fire, 2 September 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 19,501 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 3,977 ha Otavi fire, August 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,959 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 2,381 ha Otavi fire, July 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,370 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 2,558 ha Otavi fire, September 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,539 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 3,557 ha Otavi fire, August 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,543 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 2,383 ha Otavi fire, 23 September 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,374 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 6,902 ha Otavi fire, 15 September 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 6,852 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 3,140 ha Otavi fire, November 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,128 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 2,654 ha Otavi fire, 16 October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,647 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 2,736 ha Otavi fire, 10 October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,723 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 464 ha Otjiwarongo fire, 9 October 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,159 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 4,087 ha Otavi fire, 8 October 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,289 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 5,755 ha Outjo fire, 3 October 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 6,949 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 1,107 ha Outjo fire, 30 September 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 27,251 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 5,624 ha Otavi fire, 23 September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,601 ha in total · 8 days
  19. 1,541 ha Guinas fire, 21 September 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 4,154 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 9,776 ha Otavi fire, 15 September 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 10,004 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 2,156 ha Omuthiyagwiipundi fire, 15 September 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 16,607 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 19,077 ha Outjo fire, 6 September 2021 1.3% of the municipality · 63,083 ha in total · 14 days
  23. 934 ha Otjiwarongo fire, August 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 3,402 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 9 ha Omuthiyagwiipundi fire, 17 October 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 7,480 ha in total · 11 days
  25. 10,620 ha Guinas fire, 9 October 2020 0.7% of the municipality · 13,246 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 147 ha Guinas fire, 8 October 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 5,909 ha in total · 8 days
  27. 2,750 ha Otavi fire, October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,737 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 2,617 ha Otavi fire, October 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,604 ha in total · 3 days
  29. 3,484 ha Otavi fire, 21 October 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,459 ha in total · 1 day
  30. 2,406 ha Otavi fire, 20 October 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,397 ha in total · 3 days
  31. 8,454 ha Otavi fire, 15 October 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,423 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 6,479 ha Otavi fire, 14 October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,317 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 5,301 ha Omuthiyagwiipundi fire, 10 October 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 7,991 ha in total · 6 days
  34. 2,592 ha Otavi fire, 9 October 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,579 ha in total · 2 days
  35. 2,651 ha Otavi fire, 12 September 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,642 ha in total · 7 days
  36. 5,705 ha Otavi fire, 11 September 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,670 ha in total · 3 days
  37. 2,873 ha Otavi fire, August 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,850 ha in total · 2 days
  38. 2,733 ha Otavi fire, October 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,107 ha in total · 4 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).

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