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Wildfires in Omaheke

Omaheke, Namibia: 66 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 7 constituencies since 2016, burning 392,751 hectares inside the region. The largest was Okarukambe (Steinhausen) in 30 September 2021, with 31,582 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 54).

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
392,751ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.6%
84,921 km²
fires
66
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 7
Largest fire
31,582ha
Okarukambe (Steinhausen) · 30 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 34° · 10 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 35° · 11 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 36° · 13 % · 40 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 33° · 22 % · 46 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 32° · 12 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 33° · 9 % · 47 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 35° · 6 % · 47 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 35° · 9 % · 44 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. Otjombinde 110,018 ha · 5.8 %
  2. Epukiro 95,012 ha · 8.7 %
  3. Otjinene 58,228 ha · 9.0 %
  4. Okarukambe (Steinhausen) 55,076 ha · 3.1 %
  5. Aminius 53,662 ha · 4.1 %
  6. Gobabis 13,693 ha · 2.4 %
  7. Kalahari 7,062 ha · 0.6 %

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
2026219,159 Epukiro 16,858 ha
202528,759 Epukiro 6,608 ha
2024211,340 Otjombinde 7,519 ha
202318132,837 Epukiro 19,937 ha
2022635,282 Otjombinde 14,087 ha
2021847,917 Okarukambe (Steinhausen) 31,582 ha
20201688,171 Aminius 16,241 ha
2018621,929 Otjombinde 10,796 ha
201725,367 Aminius 3,129 ha
2016421,991 Otjinene 13,292 ha

All fires in Omaheke · 66

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).