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Wildfires in Windhoek West

Windhoek West, Namibia, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 2,632 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 40).

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 35° · 8 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 35° · 8 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 34° · 15 % · 49 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 33° · 15 % · 36 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 34° · 9 % · 44 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 34° · 12 % · 45 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 35° · 13 % · 47 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 19 % · 62 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

2,632
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
3
fires
210
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Windhoek West

  1. 183 ha Windhoek Rural fire, August 2026 0.9% of the municipality · 6,708 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,431 ha Windhoek West fire, July 2026 where it started 12% of the municipality · 2,577 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 18 ha Windhoek Rural fire, 5 October 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 3,103 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).