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Wildfires in Outjo

Outjo, Namibia, has had 34 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 232,343 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 31% 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. Thu 22 Extreme 38° · 6 % · 39 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Extreme 39° · 7 % · 47 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Extreme 40° · 5 % · 48 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Extreme 37° · 14 % · 46 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 24 % · 41 km/h
  6. Tue 27 High 33° · 22 % · 38 km/h
  7. Wed 28 High 36° · 18 % · 35 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Low 32° · 27 % · 39 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

232,343
hectares burned
31 %
of its area
34
fires
7,503
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Outjo

  1. 4,927 ha Outjo fire, October 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,049 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 3,954 ha Outjo fire, 18 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,939 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 8,248 ha Outjo fire, 18 September 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 8,224 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 14,451 ha Outjo fire, 4 September 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 207,324 ha in total · 28 days
  5. 247 ha Omuthiyagwiipundi fire, 24 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 4,878 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 2,610 ha Outjo fire, August 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,613 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 2,076 ha Outjo fire, August 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,071 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 20,928 ha Outjo fire, November 2021 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 20,800 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 3,463 ha Outjo fire, 15 October 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,445 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 2,300 ha Outjo fire, 14 October 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,289 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 3,184 ha Outjo fire, 14 October 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,167 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 2,227 ha Otavi fire, 8 October 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 6,289 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 1,228 ha Outjo fire, 3 October 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,949 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 1,078 ha Outjo fire, 30 September 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 9,756 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 24,214 ha Outjo fire, 30 September 2021 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 27,251 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 12,402 ha Outjo fire, 29 September 2021 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 12,332 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 2,057 ha Outjo fire, 29 September 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,159 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 6,383 ha Outjo fire, 9 September 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,361 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 3,103 ha Outjo fire, 7 September 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,093 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 42,740 ha Outjo fire, 6 September 2021 where it started 5.7% of the municipality · 63,083 ha in total · 14 days
  21. 23,177 ha Outjo fire, 4 September 2021 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 23,081 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 11,507 ha Outjo fire, 31 August 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 19,126 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 2,550 ha Outjo fire, 15 August 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,532 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 196 ha Omuthiyagwiipundi fire, 19 July 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 6,573 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 1,979 ha Outjo fire, June 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,880 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 2,322 ha Kamanjab fire, May 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 6,085 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 2,118 ha Outjo fire, 27 October 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,111 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 227 ha Omuthiyagwiipundi fire, 20 October 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,433 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 7,126 ha Outjo fire, 4 October 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 7,096 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 2,687 ha Outjo fire, September 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,673 ha in total · 5 days
  31. 3,223 ha Outjo fire, 12 October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,213 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 2,645 ha Outjo fire, 11 October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,637 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 1,286 ha Omuthiyagwiipundi fire, 11 October 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 5,349 ha in total · 6 days
  34. 9,480 ha Outjo fire, August 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 9,431 ha in total · 7 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).