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Wildfires in Oshana

Oshana, Namibia: 13 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 10 constituencies since 2016, burning 116,813 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kamanjab in October 2021, with 22,703 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 69).

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
116,813ha
Since 2016
Of the region
13%
8,696 km²
fires
13
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
1
of 10
Largest fire
22,703ha
Kamanjab · October 2021
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 Extreme 40° · 6 % · 36 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Extreme 40° · 7 % · 53 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Extreme 40° · 7 % · 41 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very extreme 39° · 14 % · 58 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Moderate 36° · 18 % · 52 km/h
  6. Tue 27 High 34° · 26 % · 33 km/h
  7. Wed 28 High 36° · 21 % · 31 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Moderate 33° · 30 % · 40 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. Uuvudhiya 116,813 ha · 20 %

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
2026118,520 Uuvudhiya 18,520 ha
2025459,512 Uuvudhiya 22,000 ha
2021735,750 Kamanjab 22,703 ha
202013,031 Uuvudhiya 3,031 ha

All fires in Oshana · 13

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).