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Wildfires in Otjombinde

Otjombinde, Namibia, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 110,018 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.8% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 57).

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. Thu 22 Extreme 36° · 7 % · 40 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Extreme 36° · 11 % · 46 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Extreme 36° · 13 % · 43 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Extreme 36° · 15 % · 39 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very high 36° · 18 % · 37 km/h
  6. Tue 27 High 35° · 20 % · 38 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very high 34° · 21 % · 44 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very high 36° · 17 % · 40 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

110,018
hectares burned
5.8 %
of its area
19
fires
18,959
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Otjombinde

  1. 2,300 ha Otjombinde fire, September 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,300 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 7,519 ha Otjombinde fire, November 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,460 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 3,821 ha Otjombinde fire, October 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,806 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 6,029 ha Otjombinde fire, 24 October 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,008 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 13,026 ha Otjombinde fire, 23 October 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 12,989 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 6,742 ha Otjombinde fire, 24 September 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 6,701 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 7,682 ha Otjombinde fire, 20 September 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,634 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 2,365 ha Otjombinde fire, 10 September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,345 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 14,087 ha Otjombinde fire, 5 October 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 14,033 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 2,968 ha Otjombinde fire, 2 October 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,950 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 4,180 ha Otjombinde fire, 20 October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,160 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 4,603 ha Otjombinde fire, 17 October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,584 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 3,238 ha Otjombinde fire, 16 October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,227 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 3,681 ha Otjombinde fire, 20 September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,656 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 3,097 ha Otjombinde fire, 20 September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,077 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 2,939 ha Otjombinde fire, 16 September 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,924 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 7,899 ha Otjombinde fire, 8 September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,855 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 10,796 ha Otjombinde fire, August 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 10,731 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 3,046 ha Otjombinde fire, September 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,040 ha in total · 2 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).