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Wildfires in Kavango East

Kavango East, Namibia: 418 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 6 constituencies since 2016, burning 2,374,814 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ndiyona in 16 September 2019, with 75,101 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 75).

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
2,374,814ha
Since 2016
Of the region
93%
25,500 km²
fires
418
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 6
Largest fire
75,101ha
Ndiyona · 16 September 2019
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 Extreme 40° · 10 % · 35 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very extreme 38° · 11 % · 53 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Extreme 38° · 18 % · 41 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Extreme 36° · 22 % · 41 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Extreme 36° · 19 % · 41 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very high 37° · 16 % · 35 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very extreme 37° · 16 % · 39 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Extreme 37° · 16 % · 41 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. Mashare 1,005,492 ha · 1.1×
  2. Ndiyona 923,647 ha · 1.1×
  3. Rundu Rural West 239,227 ha · 1.1×
  4. Mukwe 191,645 ha · 35 %
  5. Rundu Rural East 14,803 ha · 25 %

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
202654417,781 Ndiyona 65,986 ha
20251454,914 Mashare 7,902 ha
202430176,156 Mashare 44,963 ha
202347270,811 Ndiyona 25,743 ha
202253322,286 Ndiyona 50,544 ha
202125103,549 Mashare 11,547 ha
202047222,256 Mashare 56,925 ha
201926204,500 Ndiyona 75,101 ha
201834148,886 Rundu Rural West 16,963 ha
201752256,993 Ndiyona 33,424 ha
201636196,682 Ndiyona 20,801 ha

All fires in Kavango East · 418

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).