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Wildfires in Tsumeb

Tsumeb, Namibia, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 16,786 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 61% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 64).

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 37° · 9 % · 58 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 38° · 8 % · 56 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 37° · 17 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 21 % · 48 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 33° · 26 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 33° · 26 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 32° · 28 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 35° · 20 % · 44 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

16,786
hectares burned
61 %
of its area
6
fires
273
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Tsumeb

  1. 3,149 ha Tsumeb fire, September 2026 where it started 12% of the municipality · 4,043 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 1,518 ha Tsumeb fire, June 2026 where it started 5.6% of the municipality · 2,254 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,564 ha Tsumeb fire, October 2022 where it started 9.4% of the municipality · 4,025 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2,775 ha Tsumeb fire, October 2021 where it started 10% of the municipality · 2,984 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 4,412 ha Tsumeb fire, October 2017 where it started 16% of the municipality · 7,550 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 2,367 ha Tsumeb fire, September 2017 where it started 8.7% of the municipality · 2,702 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).