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Wildfires in Sesfontein

Sesfontein, Namibia, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2022: 119 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 70).

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 Very extreme 38° · 14 % · 51 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very extreme 37° · 16 % · 47 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very extreme 39° · 13 % · 49 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 34° · 20 % · 49 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very extreme 35° · 10 % · 61 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 35° · 9 % · 54 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 31° · 22 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 34° · 21 % · 47 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

119
hectares burned
0.0 %
of its area
1
fires
20,298
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Sesfontein

  1. 119 ha Okahao fire, September 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,759 ha in total · 4 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).