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Wildfires in Chobe

Chobe, Botswana: 129 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 1 subdistricts since 2016, burning 1,166,715 hectares inside the region. The largest was Chobe in 29 September 2018, with 146,090 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 57).

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
1,166,715ha
Since 2016
Of the region
55%
21,198 km²
fires
129
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
1
of 1
Largest fire
146,090ha
Chobe · 29 September 2018
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 40° · 12 % · 47 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 38° · 21 % · 48 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 36° · 16 % · 45 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 37° · 18 % · 44 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 38° · 14 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 37° · 16 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 36° · 19 % · 48 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 36° · 15 % · 48 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. Chobe 1,166,715 ha · 55 %

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
202613104,188 Chobe 33,436 ha
2025414,371 Chobe 5,466 ha
2024416,042 Chobe 8,362 ha
20231975,631 Chobe 12,285 ha
202218215,376 Chobe 106,478 ha
20218164,919 Chobe 54,031 ha
20209104,417 Chobe 33,607 ha
2019516,062 Chobe 4,590 ha
201812219,749 Chobe 146,090 ha
201720151,810 Chobe 46,480 ha
20161784,149 Chobe 27,193 ha

All fires in Chobe · 129

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).