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Wildfires in Ruacana

Ruacana, Namibia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 2,065 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.4% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 53).

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 39° · 7 % · 50 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 40° · 9 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 39° · 13 % · 35 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 35° · 21 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 34° · 22 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 38° · 11 % · 41 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 36° · 15 % · 37 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 37 % · 45 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

2,065
hectares burned
0.4 %
of its area
3
fires
5,392
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Ruacana

  1. 1,214 ha Tsandi fire, 24 November 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 3,367 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 849 ha Okahao fire, 30 September 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 3,626 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1 ha Okahao fire, 25 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 4,388 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).