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Wildfires in Omaheke
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 19,360 km² of Omaheke at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 1,690 km², ranking 4th 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 2012, with 8,080 km² detected; the quietest was 2019, with 256 km². The 2021–2025 average is 57% lower 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 77% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 25 August 2012, with detections in 533 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 19,360 km² with at least one detection, 3.4% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 15,820 | 82% |
| 2 years | 2,880 | 15% |
| 3 to 5 years | 652 | 3.4% |
| 6 to 10 years | 3.4 | 0.0% |
| 11 years or more | 2.3 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -20.75, 19.75 and holds 10% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 8,080 | 8,050 |
| 2013 | 3,240 | 3,077 |
| 2014 | 392 | 371 |
| 2015 | 1,190 | 1,171 |
| 2016 | 675 | 655 |
| 2017 | 537 | 504 |
| 2018 | 1,450 | 1,470 |
| 2019 | 256 | 270 |
| 2020 | 2,070 | 1,989 |
| 2021 | 1,190 | 1,191 |
| 2022 | 793 | 828 |
| 2023 | 3,190 | 3,332 |
| 2024 | 352 | 381 |
| 2025 | 282 | 282 |
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
- Oshikoto1,380 km² in an average year
- Kunene872 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.
Nearby regions
- Otjozondjupa152 km
- Kavango228 km
- Oshikoto267 km
- North-West, Botswana272 km
- Khomas340 km
- Kgalagadi, Botswana367 km