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Wildfires in North-West District

North-West District, Botswana: 626 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 2 subdistricts since 2016, burning 4,147,381 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ngamiland West in 19 August 2021, with 160,609 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 49).

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
4,147,381ha
Since 2016
Of the region
37%
112,126 km²
fires
626
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
2
of 2
Largest fire
160,609ha
Ngamiland West · 19 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. Sun 1 Extreme 38° · 13 % · 42 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very high 38° · 13 % · 33 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Extreme 39° · 14 % · 36 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Extreme 39° · 14 % · 41 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Extreme 40° · 16 % · 37 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Extreme 40° · 15 % · 50 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very high 36° · 22 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Moderate 35° · 40 % · 50 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. Ngamiland West 2,416,400 ha · 41 %
  2. Ngamiland East 1,730,981 ha · 33 %

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
202667396,122 Ngamiland East 36,429 ha
202533241,344 Ngamiland West 42,760 ha
202430157,962 Ngamiland West 28,384 ha
202386626,917 Ngamiland East 79,918 ha
202254404,393 Ngamiland East 41,372 ha
2021107832,500 Ngamiland West 160,609 ha
202044165,972 Chobe 13,143 ha
201946329,533 Ngamiland West 86,406 ha
201845274,777 Ngamiland East 26,774 ha
201766460,121 Ngamiland West 37,706 ha
201648257,740 Ngamiland East 15,589 ha

All fires in North-West District · 626

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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