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Wildfires in Central District

Central District, Botswana: 225 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 8 subdistricts since 2016, burning 1,048,058 hectares inside the region. The largest was Lethlakane in 15 September 2017, with 43,545 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 41).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
1,048,058ha
Since 2016
Of the region
7.1%
147,467 km²
fires
225
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 8
Largest fire
43,545ha
Lethlakane · 15 September 2017
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Extreme 36° · 17 % · 51 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 31° · 35 % · 51 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 34° · 17 % · 41 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 36° · 14 % · 31 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 15 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 34° · 21 % · 48 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 33° · 19 % · 49 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 31° · 22 % · 46 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Tutume 568,140 ha · 13 %
  2. Serowe 176,014 ha · 5.7 %
  3. Lethlakane 173,001 ha · 6.0 %
  4. Mahalapye 59,708 ha · 5.2 %
  5. Bobonong 26,253 ha · 1.9 %
  6. Palapye 17,199 ha · 2.3 %
  7. Machaneng 15,654 ha · 2.9 %
  8. Tuli 12,090 ha · 2.6 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202638156,097 Serowe 12,940 ha
20251769,434 Tutume 8,497 ha
2024836,056 Chobe 10,969 ha
202340167,657 Serowe 24,255 ha
202240156,628 Lethlakane 16,638 ha
202130136,764 Lethlakane 15,013 ha
2020669,056 Tutume 41,865 ha
20191339,636 Tutume 7,142 ha
2018626,818 Tutume 7,301 ha
201722173,941 Lethlakane 43,545 ha
2016515,973 Tutume 6,553 ha

All fires in Central District · 225

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).