Wildfires in Kgatleng
Kgatleng, Botswana: 8 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 1 subdistricts since 2016, burning 32,878 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kgatleng in October 2023, with 10,057 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 47).
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
- 32,878ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 4.3%
- 7,655 km²
- fires
- 8
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 1
- Largest fire
- 10,057ha
- Kgatleng · October 2023
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Very high 34° · 23 % · 42 km/h
- Sun 25 Very high 35° · 17 % · 42 km/h
- Mon 26 Extreme 37° · 8 % · 40 km/h
- Tue 27 Very high 36° · 18 % · 34 km/h
- Wed 28 Very high 36° · 9 % · 34 km/h
- Thu 29 Extreme 34° · 24 % · 46 km/h
- Fri 30 Extreme 34° · 22 % · 47 km/h
- Sat 31 Extreme 35° · 19 % · 45 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Kgatleng 32,878 ha · 4.2 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 8×Kgatleng32,878 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 10,057 haKgatlengOctober 2023 · 4 days
- 7,495 haKgatlengAugust 2023 · 4 days of 8,409 ha in total
- 6,995 haKgatleng18 September 2022 · 2 days
- 4,829 haMahalapyeOctober 2022 · 4 days of 18,282 ha in total
- 2,851 haKgatleng12 September 2022 · 13 days of 10,220 ha in total
- 391 haMahalapyeAugust 2026 · 2 days of 2,246 ha in total
- 231 haMahalapyeSeptember 2021 · 3 days of 2,090 ha in total
- 29 haMahalapyeAugust 2023 · 2 days of 3,416 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Kgatleng · 8
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 391 haMahalapyeAugust 2026 · 2 days of 2,246 ha in total
- 10,057 haKgatlengOctober 2023 · 4 days
- 29 haMahalapyeAugust 2023 · 2 days of 3,416 ha in total
- 7,495 haKgatlengAugust 2023 · 4 days of 8,409 ha in total
- 4,829 haMahalapyeOctober 2022 · 4 days of 18,282 ha in total
- 6,995 haKgatleng18 September 2022 · 2 days
- 2,851 haKgatleng12 September 2022 · 13 days of 10,220 ha in total
- 231 haMahalapyeSeptember 2021 · 3 days of 2,090 ha in total
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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