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Wildfires in Otjiwarongo

Otjiwarongo, Namibia, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 64,127 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% 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 38° · 7 % · 46 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 38° · 8 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 37° · 14 % · 45 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 18 % · 44 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 34° · 16 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 34° · 18 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 35° · 16 % · 47 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 35° · 23 % · 44 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

64,127
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
19
fires
5,932
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Otjiwarongo

  1. 2,741 ha Otjiwarongo fire, September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,723 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 5,316 ha Otjiwarongo fire, 27 August 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,283 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 8,258 ha Otjiwarongo fire, 13 August 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 8,209 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 6,263 ha Otjiwarongo fire, 13 August 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,224 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,590 ha Daures fire, 23 July 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 14,164 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 2,355 ha Otjiwarongo fire, 15 October 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,339 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,702 ha Otjiwarongo fire, 9 October 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,159 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2,672 ha Otjiwarongo fire, 2 October 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,665 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 2,067 ha Outjo fire, 30 September 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 27,251 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 8,711 ha Outjo fire, 30 September 2021 1.5% of the municipality · 9,756 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 117 ha Outjo fire, 29 September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,159 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 9 ha Outjo fire, 29 September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 12,332 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 4,262 ha Otjiwarongo fire, 21 September 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,239 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 2,435 ha Otjiwarongo fire, 1 September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,423 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 7,741 ha Outjo fire, 31 August 2021 1.3% of the municipality · 19,126 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 2,478 ha Otjiwarongo fire, August 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,402 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 922 ha Outjo fire, June 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 2,880 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 201 ha Omatako fire, June 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,320 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 4,289 ha Otjiwarongo fire, September 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,258 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).