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Wildfires in Karas
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 2,150 km² of Karas at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 179 km², ranking 13th of 13 regions of Namibia.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2022, with 730 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 85 km². The 2021–2025 average is 48% higher than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
October, November and December together hold 50% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 13 October 2022, with detections in 226 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,150 km² with at least one detection, 3.3% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,950 | 91% |
| 2 years | 127 | 5.9% |
| 3 to 5 years | 58 | 2.7% |
| 6 to 10 years | 12 | 0.6% |
| 11 years or more | 1.1 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -27.25, 18.75 and holds 23% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 226 | 228 |
| 2013 | 132 | 147 |
| 2014 | 128 | 137 |
| 2015 | 141 | 147 |
| 2016 | 154 | 172 |
| 2017 | 122 | 118 |
| 2018 | 135 | 134 |
| 2019 | 159 | 167 |
| 2020 | 165 | 164 |
| 2021 | 115 | 119 |
| 2022 | 730 | 729 |
| 2023 | 85 | 86 |
| 2024 | 128 | 139 |
| 2025 | 94 | 103 |
Other regions of Namibia
- Kavango9,080 km² in an average year
- Zambezi7,480 km² in an average year
- Otjozondjupa5,190 km² in an average year
- Omaheke1,690 km² in an average year
- Oshikoto1,380 km² in an average year
- Kunene872 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Hardap295 km
- Kgalagadi, Botswana463 km
- Northern Cape, South Africa504 km
- Khomas522 km
- Southern, Botswana560 km
- Western Cape, South Africa613 km