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Wildfires in Kweneng

Kweneng, Botswana: 132 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 2 subdistricts since 2016, burning 697,999 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kweneng South in 18 July 2026, with 58,049 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
697,999ha
Since 2016
Of the region
19%
37,181 km²
fires
132
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
2
of 2
Largest fire
58,049ha
Kweneng South · 18 July 2026
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° · 9 % · 41 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 34° · 18 % · 38 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 35° · 10 % · 44 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 37° · 16 % · 41 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 34° · 23 % · 46 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 11 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 35° · 12 % · 33 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 34° · 16 % · 37 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. Kweneng South 640,116 ha · 24 %
  2. Kweneng North 57,883 ha · 5.9 %

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
202620160,088 Kweneng South 58,049 ha
202511,145 Kweneng South 1,145 ha
2024310,768 Kweneng South 4,413 ha
202341201,136 Kweneng South 23,006 ha
202235162,752 Kweneng South 26,099 ha
20211370,042 Kweneng South 11,348 ha
202027,379 Kweneng South 7,291 ha
2019199 Ghanzi 99 ha
20181684,590 Kweneng South 20,545 ha

All fires in Kweneng · 132

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).