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Wildfires in Oshikoto

Oshikoto, Namibia: 110 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 10 constituencies since 2016, burning 765,487 hectares inside the region. The largest was Outjo in 4 September 2026, with 177,550 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 68).

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
765,487ha
Since 2016
Of the region
20%
38,876 km²
fires
110
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 10
Largest fire
177,550ha
Outjo · 4 September 2026
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° · 8 % · 51 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 40° · 7 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 38° · 14 % · 39 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 36° · 21 % · 32 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 36° · 20 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 35° · 14 % · 36 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 35° · 21 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 23 % · 32 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. Omuthiyagwiipundi 538,292 ha · 40 %
  2. Guinas 158,088 ha · 15 %
  3. Eengodi 37,516 ha · 4.8 %
  4. Tsumeb 16,786 ha · 61 %
  5. Okankolo 14,497 ha · 4.1 %
  6. Omuntele 308 ha · 0.2 %

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
202612256,895 Outjo 177,550 ha
2025948,077 Omuthiyagwiipundi 28,482 ha
202227,291 Tsumeb 4,050 ha
202126136,356 Omuthiyagwiipundi 27,744 ha
202030212,513 Guinas 40,551 ha
20172277,530 Okankolo 7,826 ha
2016926,825 Guinas 7,366 ha

All fires in Oshikoto · 110

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).