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Wildfires in Otjinene

Otjinene, Namibia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 58,228 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.0% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 66).

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° · 9 % · 49 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 36° · 9 % · 47 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 37° · 12 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 33° · 22 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 33° · 21 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 32° · 18 % · 40 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 34° · 20 % · 46 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 13 % · 48 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

58,228
hectares burned
9.0 %
of its area
6
fires
6,446
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Otjinene

  1. 19,552 ha Otjinene fire, September 2023 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 19,490 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,132 ha Epukiro fire, 11 September 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 7,804 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 18,599 ha Epukiro fire, 10 September 2023 2.9% of the municipality · 19,876 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 2,057 ha Otjinene fire, October 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,049 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 3,596 ha Otjinene fire, 27 September 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,584 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 13,292 ha Otjinene fire, 26 September 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 13,247 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).