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Wildfires in Kunene
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 9,990 km² of Kunene at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 872 km², ranking 6th 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 4,270 km² detected; the quietest was 2015, with 140 km². The 2021–2025 average is 94% 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 64% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 7 September 2021, with detections in 167 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 9,990 km² with at least one detection, 3.6% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 8,200 | 82% |
| 2 years | 1,430 | 14% |
| 3 to 5 years | 364 | 3.6% |
| 6 to 10 years | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -19.75, 16.25 and holds 15% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2,730 | 2,643 |
| 2013 | 188 | 170 |
| 2014 | 332 | 311 |
| 2015 | 140 | 130 |
| 2016 | 199 | 180 |
| 2017 | 584 | 571 |
| 2018 | 401 | 373 |
| 2019 | 180 | 164 |
| 2020 | 501 | 459 |
| 2021 | 4,270 | 4,212 |
| 2022 | 670 | 611 |
| 2023 | 296 | 274 |
| 2024 | 209 | 193 |
| 2025 | 1,500 | 1,371 |
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
- Omusati742 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.