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Wildfires in Otjozondjupa

Otjozondjupa, Namibia: 249 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 7 constituencies since 2016, burning 1,219,904 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tsumkwe in 25 August 2026, with 42,743 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 60).

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
1,219,904ha
Since 2016
Of the region
12%
105,583 km²
fires
249
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 7
Largest fire
42,743ha
Tsumkwe · 25 August 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 Extreme 37° · 8 % · 50 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 37° · 9 % · 51 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 36° · 14 % · 42 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 34° · 22 % · 51 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 11 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 14 % · 53 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 36° · 12 % · 46 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 37° · 14 % · 47 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Tsumkwe 814,886 ha · 29 %
  2. Otavi 181,081 ha · 13 %
  3. Omatako 67,902 ha · 2.7 %
  4. Otjiwarongo 64,127 ha · 11 %
  5. Grootfontein 60,202 ha · 5.3 %
  6. Okahandja 30,649 ha · 5.2 %
  7. Okakarara 1,056 ha · 0.1 %

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
202637251,682 Tsumkwe 42,743 ha
202558,552 Tsumkwe 4,024 ha
2024929,145 Mashare 7,557 ha
202330181,134 Tsumkwe 27,694 ha
202237190,726 Tsumkwe 20,409 ha
202148175,442 Outjo 19,077 ha
202024103,227 Grootfontein 20,419 ha
201927,956 Tsumkwe 5,161 ha
201828128,023 Tsumkwe 17,120 ha
20171880,938 Grootfontein 14,523 ha
20161163,080 Tsumkwe 24,662 ha

All fires in Otjozondjupa · 249

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).