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Wildfires in Uuvudhiya

Uuvudhiya, Namibia, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 116,813 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 20% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 62).

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 39° · 8 % · 52 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 39° · 8 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 38° · 14 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 34° · 20 % · 33 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 19 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 38° · 13 % · 34 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 35° · 18 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 36° · 34 % · 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

116,813
hectares burned
20 %
of its area
13
fires
5,854
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Uuvudhiya

  1. 18,520 ha Uuvudhiya fire, August 2026 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 18,455 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 22,000 ha Uuvudhiya fire, 26 September 2025 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 22,468 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 7,881 ha Uuvudhiya fire, 26 September 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 7,836 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 18,988 ha Uuvudhiya fire, 26 September 2025 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 19,740 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 10,643 ha Otamanzi fire, September 2025 1.8% of the municipality · 61,847 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 1,871 ha Otamanzi fire, 23 November 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 3,875 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 2,445 ha Uuvudhiya fire, 9 November 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,435 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2,809 ha Uuvudhiya fire, 9 November 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,798 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 2,730 ha Uuvudhiya fire, October 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,710 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 22,703 ha Kamanjab fire, October 2021 3.9% of the municipality · 25,507 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 20 ha Omuthiyagwiipundi fire, 16 September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,211 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 3,173 ha Uuvudhiya fire, September 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,162 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 3,031 ha Uuvudhiya fire, November 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,020 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).