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Wildfires in Erongo

Erongo, Namibia: 12 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 7 constituencies since 2016, burning 47,491 hectares inside the region. The largest was Daures in 23 July 2026, with 11,645 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 52).

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
47,491ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.7%
63,851 km²
fires
12
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 7
Largest fire
11,645ha
Daures · 23 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 37° · 14 % · 41 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 34° · 22 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 34° · 19 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 31° · 24 % · 38 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 30° · 26 % · 45 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very extreme 39° · 8 % · 40 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 28° · 27 % · 42 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 30° · 31 % · 45 km/h

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. Daures 17,457 ha · 1.0 %
  2. Omaruru 15,941 ha · 1.9 %
  3. Karibib 14,094 ha · 1.0 %

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
20261042,532 Daures 11,645 ha
202512,309 Karibib 2,309 ha
202112,651 Omaruru 2,651 ha

All fires in Erongo · 12

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 OCHA COD-AB/Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) (Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).