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Wildfires in Southern District

Southern District, Botswana: 106 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 4 subdistricts since 2016, burning 389,265 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ngwaketse Central in September 2022, with 22,223 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 28).

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
389,265ha
Since 2016
Of the region
14%
27,489 km²
fires
106
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 4
Largest fire
22,223ha
Ngwaketse Central · September 2022
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 25 Extreme 35° · 14 % · 51 km/h
  2. Mon 26 High 35° · 17 % · 54 km/h
  3. Tue 27 High 33° · 18 % · 36 km/h
  4. Wed 28 High 34° · 8 % · 20 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very high 34° · 14 % · 41 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very high 35° · 18 % · 41 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very high 35° · 20 % · 41 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very high 36° · 18 % · 37 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Ngwaketse North 251,938 ha · 17 %
  2. Ngwaketse South 107,668 ha · 16 %
  3. Ngwaketse Central 29,660 ha · 6.0 %

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
20261677,863 Ngwaketse North 12,956 ha
2025413,606 Ngwaketse North 5,792 ha
202425,325 Ngwaketse North 3,302 ha
20232869,113 Ngwaketse Central 5,438 ha
202240163,903 Ngwaketse Central 22,223 ha
20211451,333 Ngwaketse North 8,999 ha
201814,069 Ngwaketse North 4,069 ha
201714,053 Ngwaketse North 4,053 ha

All fires in Southern District · 106

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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