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Wildfires in Zambezi

Zambezi, Namibia: 108 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 6 constituencies since 2016, burning 381,658 hectares inside the region. The largest was Linyanti in 8 September 2026, with 19,342 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 46).

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
381,658ha
Since 2016
Of the region
26%
14,549 km²
fires
108
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 6
Largest fire
19,342ha
Linyanti · 8 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 Extreme 40° · 10 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 36° · 22 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 37° · 18 % · 47 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 37° · 17 % · 45 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 38° · 16 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 38° · 19 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 37° · 22 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 36° · 19 % · 49 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. Kongola 197,581 ha · 39 %
  2. Linyanti 132,396 ha · 35 %
  3. Sibbinda 45,572 ha · 27 %
  4. Katima Mulilo Rural 4,098 ha · 2.1 %
  5. Kabbe 2,011 ha · 1.0 %

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
20261456,976 Linyanti 19,342 ha
2025738,517 Kongola 14,861 ha
202419,550 Kongola 9,550 ha
2023825,616 Linyanti 6,272 ha
20221247,603 Kongola 15,284 ha
2021617,734 Kongola 5,452 ha
2020725,151 Sibbinda 7,095 ha
20191752,793 Linyanti 5,903 ha
20181036,145 Linyanti 10,393 ha
20171750,457 Kongola 6,061 ha
2016921,116 Linyanti 2,884 ha

All fires in Zambezi · 108

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).