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Wildfires in Kgalagadi

Kgalagadi, Botswana: 456 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 3 subdistricts since 2016, burning 3,045,707 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tshabong in 23 August 2021, with 122,243 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 64).

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
3,045,707ha
Since 2016
Of the region
29%
105,196 km²
fires
456
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 3
Largest fire
122,243ha
Tshabong · 23 August 2021
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 31 Extreme 38° · 13 % · 46 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Extreme 34° · 19 % · 41 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very high 36° · 19 % · 31 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Extreme 37° · 17 % · 46 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Extreme 40° · 13 % · 48 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very extreme 40° · 14 % · 60 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Extreme 38° · 15 % · 38 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Extreme 38° · 18 % · 61 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. Hukunsti 1,571,131 ha · 34 %
  2. Gemsbok 819,380 ha · 31 %
  3. Tshabong 655,195 ha · 20 %

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
202626127,369 Hukunsti 12,622 ha
202533171,927 Hukunsti 20,558 ha
2024824,448 Hukunsti 7,360 ha
202369362,156 Hukunsti 39,326 ha
202267387,483 Hukunsti 46,493 ha
20211541,454,923 Tshabong 122,243 ha
202026137,762 Gemsbok 17,839 ha
201924,953 Hukunsti 2,630 ha
20181372,483 Hukunsti 16,473 ha
201756293,744 Hukunsti 28,510 ha
201628,459 Hukunsti 7,759 ha

All fires in Kgalagadi · 456

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).

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