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Wildfires in Khomas
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 4,640 km² of Khomas at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 412 km², ranking 8th 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 2021, with 2,100 km² detected; the quietest was 2024, with 78 km². The 2021–2025 average is 81% 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.
August, September and October together hold 57% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 1 December 2021, with detections in 223 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 4,640 km² with at least one detection, 4.6% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 3,840 | 83% |
| 2 years | 581 | 13% |
| 3 to 5 years | 207 | 4.5% |
| 6 to 10 years | 7.9 | 0.2% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -22.75, 17.25 and holds 21% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 834 | 840 |
| 2013 | 188 | 185 |
| 2014 | 372 | 405 |
| 2015 | 249 | 245 |
| 2016 | 184 | 188 |
| 2017 | 274 | 263 |
| 2018 | 103 | 94 |
| 2019 | 89 | 94 |
| 2020 | 170 | 156 |
| 2021 | 2,100 | 2,008 |
| 2022 | 546 | 548 |
| 2023 | 426 | 426 |
| 2024 | 78 | 69 |
| 2025 | 159 | 146 |
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.