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Wildfires in Sibbinda

Sibbinda, Namibia, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 45,572 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 27% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 56).

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. Sat 24 Extreme 37° · 19 % · 46 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Extreme 36° · 17 % · 41 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Extreme 37° · 13 % · 41 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 38° · 14 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 33° · 27 % · 50 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 36° · 20 % · 44 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very high 35° · 28 % · 45 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very high 36° · 22 % · 32 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

45,572
hectares burned
27 %
of its area
19
fires
1,684
km²

How many times has Sibbinda burned?

Sibbinda has burned 19 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Sibbinda fire, August 2026, with 5,507 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 45,572 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 25,778 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
19
fires
9
years with fire
45,572
cumulative ha
25,778
distinct ha

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 Sibbinda

  1. 5,507 ha Sibbinda fire, August 2026 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 6,037 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,722 ha Linyanti fire, 9 July 2026 1.0% of the municipality · 9,698 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 103 ha Kongola fire, September 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,079 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 238 ha Kongola fire, October 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 3,045 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 2,365 ha Sibbinda fire, July 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,350 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 7 ha Kongola fire, October 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,831 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 7,095 ha Sibbinda fire, July 2020 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 7,499 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 76 ha Kongola fire, 13 September 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,721 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 2,848 ha Sibbinda fire, September 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,832 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 2,241 ha Sibbinda fire, August 2018 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,228 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 3,717 ha Sibbinda fire, June 2018 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,695 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 1,725 ha Sibbinda fire, September 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,310 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 5,885 ha Sibbinda fire, August 2017 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 5,849 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 1,851 ha Sibbinda fire, 25 July 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,302 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 1,353 ha Linyanti fire, July 2017 0.8% of the municipality · 2,038 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 2,124 ha Sibbinda fire, 24 July 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,123 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 2,067 ha Sibbinda fire, June 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,054 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 2,030 ha Sibbinda fire, August 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,018 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 2,616 ha Sibbinda fire, May 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,759 ha in total · 6 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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