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Wildfires in Rundu Rural West

Rundu Rural West, Namibia: 51 fires since 2016 burned 239,227 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.1 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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. Tue 10 Moderate 32° · 32 % · 32 km/h
  2. Wed 11 High 34° · 20 % · 32 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Extreme 35° · 14 % · 34 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Extreme 37° · 15 % · 29 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Very high 37° · 14 % · 35 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Extreme 39° · 13 % · 34 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Very high 36° · 18 % · 46 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Very low 32° · 37 % · 52 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Rundu Rural West: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

239,227
hectares burned
1.1×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
51
fires
2,097
km²

How many times has Rundu Rural West burned?

Rundu Rural West has burned 51 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kapako fire, 5 September 2026, with 43 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 11× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6. 6× 21
  7. 5× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 3× 26
51
fires
11
years with fire
239,227
cumulative ha
5 Sept 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 2,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Namibia

Fires that entered Rundu Rural West

  1. 43 ha Kapako fire, 5 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,500 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 29,221 ha Kapako fire, 21 August 2026 14% of the municipality · 80,896 ha in total · 29 days
  3. 11,299 ha Rundu Rural West fire, August 2026 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 11,201 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 2,533 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 28 September 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,586 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 4,696 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 14 September 2025 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 4,671 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 2,451 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 25 October 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,437 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 10,495 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 24 October 2024 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 10,432 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 7,578 ha Rundu Rural West fire, July 2024 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 7,536 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 6,726 ha Rundu Rural West fire, September 2023 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 6,693 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 2,105 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 31 August 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,094 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 2,079 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 22 August 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,067 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 43 ha Kapako fire, 9 August 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 6,438 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 12,842 ha Kapako fire, 9 August 2023 6.1% of the municipality · 34,882 ha in total · 18 days
  14. 16,033 ha Rundu Rural West fire, October 2022 where it started 7.6% of the municipality · 15,945 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 362 ha Kapako fire, October 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 3,080 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 247 ha Mashare fire, 21 September 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 2,173 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 468 ha Kapako fire, 20 September 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 2,690 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 8,478 ha Rundu Rural West fire, August 2022 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 8,428 ha in total · 18 days
  19. 2,446 ha Rundu Rural West fire, October 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,432 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 1,759 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 22 September 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 9,398 ha in total · 9 days
  21. 4,018 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 14 September 2021 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,997 ha in total · 11 days
  22. 233 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 2 September 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 9,138 ha in total · 16 days
  23. 2,907 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 2 September 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,890 ha in total · 8 days
  24. 2,589 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 1 September 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,576 ha in total · 7 days
  25. 1,644 ha Kapako fire, 4 November 2020 0.8% of the municipality · 2,277 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 3,291 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 24 October 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,271 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 2,163 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 16 October 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,152 ha in total · 9 days
  28. 649 ha Rundu Rural East fire, October 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 2,985 ha in total · 3 days
  29. 78 ha Rundu Rural East fire, September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 5,919 ha in total · 11 days
  30. 2,413 ha Rundu Rural West fire, September 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,448 ha in total · 6 days
  31. 5,389 ha Rundu Rural West fire, October 2019 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 5,358 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 3,688 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 28 September 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,852 ha in total · 6 days
  33. 10,571 ha Kapako fire, September 2019 5.0% of the municipality · 31,877 ha in total · 14 days
  34. 6,805 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 14 September 2019 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 6,772 ha in total · 16 days
  35. 49 ha Mashare fire, 10 October 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 3,953 ha in total · 7 days
  36. 16,963 ha Rundu Rural West fire, October 2018 where it started 8.1% of the municipality · 17,421 ha in total · 13 days
  37. 1,203 ha Kapako fire, 21 September 2018 0.6% of the municipality · 11,353 ha in total · 8 days
  38. 2,091 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 19 October 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,079 ha in total · 2 days
  39. 2,479 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 10 October 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,467 ha in total · 10 days
  40. 46 ha Kapako fire, 19 September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 6,557 ha in total · 11 days
  41. 51 ha Mashare fire, 13 September 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,205 ha in total · 8 days
  42. 18,020 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 28 August 2017 where it started 8.6% of the municipality · 21,488 ha in total · 25 days
  43. 2,796 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 28 August 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,788 ha in total · 8 days
  44. 5,237 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 28 August 2017 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 9,064 ha in total · 9 days
  45. 2,219 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 26 August 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,205 ha in total · 11 days
  46. 6,051 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 24 August 2017 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 6,390 ha in total · 14 days
  47. 2,721 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 23 August 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,705 ha in total · 6 days
  48. 4,754 ha Rundu Rural West fire, 13 August 2017 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 4,729 ha in total · 12 days
  49. 3,621 ha Rundu Rural West fire, October 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,599 ha in total · 6 days
  50. 39 ha Mashare fire, 28 September 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 5,441 ha in total · 9 days
  51. 2,544 ha Rundu Rural West fire, August 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,532 ha in total · 3 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).

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