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Wildfires in Khomas

Khomas, Namibia: 35 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 10 constituencies since 2016, burning 126,876 hectares inside the region. The largest was Windhoek Rural in 29 November 2021, with 13,530 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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
126,876ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.4%
37,122 km²
fires
35
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
3
of 10
Largest fire
13,530ha
Windhoek Rural · 29 November 2021
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Extreme 34° · 7 % · 45 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 34° · 14 % · 71 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Extreme 33° · 7 % · 53 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 31° · 8 % · 35 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Extreme 32° · 5 % · 44 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very high 35° · 7 % · 51 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 9 % · 39 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very high 36° · 10 % · 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. Windhoek Rural 124,243 ha · 3.4 %
  2. Windhoek West 2,632 ha · 13 %
  3. Windhoek East 1 ha · 0.0 %

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
202629,311 Windhoek Rural 6,722 ha
202323,180 Windhoek Rural 3,056 ha
202213,779 Windhoek Rural 3,779 ha
20212493,250 Windhoek Rural 13,530 ha
202014,135 Windhoek Rural 4,135 ha
201737,368 Windhoek Rural 2,638 ha
201625,852 Windhoek Rural 2,955 ha

All fires in Khomas · 35

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).

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