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Wildfires in Ghanzi

Ghanzi, Botswana: 473 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 1 subdistricts since 2016, burning 3,251,385 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ghanzi in 27 August 2023, with 138,424 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 51).

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
3,251,385ha
Since 2016
Of the region
28%
115,625 km²
fires
473
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
1
of 1
Largest fire
138,424ha
Ghanzi · 27 August 2023
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 35° · 14 % · 46 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 36° · 16 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 36° · 18 % · 40 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 37° · 18 % · 60 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 34° · 24 % · 41 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 9 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 35° · 14 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 36° · 14 % · 43 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. Ghanzi 3,251,385 ha · 28 %

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
202622170,258 Ghanzi 42,433 ha
20251760,518 Ngamiland East 7,701 ha
20242395,231 Ghanzi 12,336 ha
2023115796,151 Ghanzi 138,424 ha
202296826,842 Ghanzi 58,140 ha
202194543,035 Ghanzi 30,457 ha
202042234,481 Ghanzi 20,310 ha
20191252,781 Ghanzi 8,881 ha
2018613,858 Ghanzi 5,395 ha
201741442,765 Ghanzi 74,129 ha
2016515,467 Ghanzi 4,698 ha

All fires in Ghanzi · 473

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).