Wildfires in Karas
Karas, Namibia: 2 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 6 constituencies since 2016, burning 8,569 hectares inside the region. The largest was Karasburg in October 2022, with 6,337 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 62).
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
- 8,569ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.1%
- 161,956 km²
- fires
- 2
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 6
- Largest fire
- 6,337ha
- Karasburg · October 2022
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very high 35° · 15 % · 33 km/h
- Sat 24 Extreme 39° · 7 % · 40 km/h
- Sun 25 Extreme 40° · 7 % · 41 km/h
- Mon 26 Very extreme 32° · 10 % · 59 km/h
- Tue 27 Extreme 32° · 7 % · 38 km/h
- Wed 28 Extreme 35° · 4 % · 50 km/h
- Thu 29 Extreme 39° · 3 % · 51 km/h
- Fri 30 Extreme 41° · 5 % · 45 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Karasburg 4,501 ha · 0.1 %
- Keetmanshoop Rural 4,068 ha · 0.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×Keetmanshoop Rural4,068 ha
Largest recorded fires
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 8,569 | Karasburg 6,337 ha |
All fires in Karas · 2
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).