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Wildfires in Kavango West

Kavango West, Namibia: 166 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 3 constituencies since 2016, burning 722,035 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kapako in 21 August 2026, with 53,044 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 65).

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
722,035ha
Since 2016
Of the region
31%
23,214 km²
fires
166
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 3
Largest fire
53,044ha
Kapako · 21 August 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 Very extreme 38° · 10 % · 54 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 38° · 11 % · 48 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 37° · 20 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 35° · 23 % · 52 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 35° · 19 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 34° · 27 % · 54 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 34° · 24 % · 37 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 37° · 18 % · 41 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. Kapako 347,430 ha · 56 %
  2. Mpungu 214,647 ha · 26 %
  3. Kahenge 159,957 ha · 18 %

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
202620118,927 Kapako 53,044 ha
20251861,635 Kahenge 8,688 ha
2024414,782 Kapako 6,477 ha
20231570,887 Kapako 22,225 ha
20221148,492 Kapako 14,874 ha
20211146,576 Rundu Rural West 9,040 ha
20202377,770 Kahenge 9,932 ha
2019121,478 Kapako 21,478 ha
20181265,428 Mpungu 13,551 ha
20171346,683 Kapako 6,532 ha
201638149,376 Eengodi 14,907 ha

All fires in Kavango West · 166

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).