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Wildfires in Windhoek Rural

Windhoek Rural, Namibia, has had 35 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 124,243 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 49).

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 high 33° · 11 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 34° · 8 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 34° · 14 % · 53 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 33° · 15 % · 41 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 32° · 9 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 33° · 11 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 35° · 12 % · 51 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 34° · 18 % · 53 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

124,243
hectares burned
3.4 %
of its area
35
fires
36,642
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Windhoek Rural

  1. 6,539 ha Windhoek Rural fire, August 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,708 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 158 ha Windhoek West fire, July 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,577 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 3,056 ha Windhoek Rural fire, September 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,035 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 124 ha Omatako fire, September 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 5,089 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 3,779 ha Windhoek Rural fire, October 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,756 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 2,244 ha Windhoek Rural fire, December 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,250 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 2,057 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 29 November 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,394 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 6,759 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 29 November 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,762 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 13,530 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 29 November 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 13,553 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 3,210 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 28 November 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 4,485 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 3,943 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 27 November 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 4,223 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 2,579 ha Omatako fire, 27 November 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 11,412 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 2,825 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 21 November 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,808 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 3,480 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 19 October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,466 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 2,309 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 19 October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,301 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 5,050 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 19 October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,029 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 2,899 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 15 October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,884 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 3,093 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 5 October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,089 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 2,364 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 5 October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,361 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 3,094 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 5 October 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,103 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 80 ha Okahandja fire, September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,260 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 3,092 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 13 September 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,085 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 3,038 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 3 September 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,030 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 4,470 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 2 September 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 4,457 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 3,922 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 23 August 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,917 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 11,204 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 4 August 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 11,145 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 3,305 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 4 August 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,287 ha in total · 4 days
  28. 2,567 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 2 August 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 3,218 ha in total · 1 day
  29. 2,117 ha Windhoek Rural fire, June 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,114 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 4,135 ha Windhoek Rural fire, October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,960 ha in total · 3 days
  31. 2,638 ha Windhoek Rural fire, October 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,635 ha in total · 2 days
  32. 2,226 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 15 September 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,229 ha in total · 1 day
  33. 2,505 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 11 September 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,489 ha in total · 2 days
  34. 2,897 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 27 September 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,893 ha in total · 4 days
  35. 2,955 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 26 September 2016 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,950 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).