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Wildfires in Omusati

Omusati, Namibia: 42 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 12 constituencies since 2016, burning 398,583 hectares inside the region. The largest was Okahao in 25 September 2025, with 85,832 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 61).

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
398,583ha
Since 2016
Of the region
15%
26,697 km²
fires
42
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 12
Largest fire
85,832ha
Okahao · 25 September 2025
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 39° · 7 % · 52 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 40° · 8 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 39° · 13 % · 36 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 33° · 20 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 37° · 15 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 38° · 12 % · 44 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 36° · 12 % · 46 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 36° · 22 % · 54 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. Okahao 268,809 ha · 27 %
  2. Otamanzi 108,696 ha · 26 %
  3. Tsandi 19,014 ha · 8.0 %
  4. Ruacana 2,065 ha · 0.4 %

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
2026525,048 Okahao 11,296 ha
202524331,590 Okahao 85,832 ha
202212,666 Okahao 2,666 ha
20211136,122 Okahao 9,623 ha
201713,157 Okahao 3,157 ha

All fires in Omusati · 42

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).