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Wildfires in Kunene

Kunene, Namibia: 72 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 6 constituencies since 2016, burning 405,006 hectares inside the region. The largest was Outjo in 6 September 2021, with 42,740 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 51).

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
405,006ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.5%
115,945 km²
fires
72
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 6
Largest fire
42,740ha
Outjo · 6 September 2021
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 40° · 5 % · 48 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 40° · 7 % · 39 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 39° · 12 % · 42 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 36° · 30 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 34° · 13 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 35° · 8 % · 57 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 35° · 11 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 36° · 22 % · 53 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. Outjo 232,343 ha · 31 %
  2. Kamanjab 133,581 ha · 7.8 %
  3. Opuwo 22,529 ha · 0.9 %
  4. Khorixas 8,479 ha · 0.4 %
  5. Epupa 7,955 ha · 0.3 %
  6. Sesfontein 119 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
20261276,444 Opuwo 17,271 ha
20251556,903 Kamanjab 10,913 ha
202312,076 Outjo 2,076 ha
202236,042 Kamanjab 3,653 ha
202133234,750 Outjo 42,740 ha
2020412,158 Outjo 7,126 ha
2017416,634 Outjo 9,480 ha

All fires in Kunene · 72

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).