Namibia

Brief · 15 September 2026

Namibia experienced widespread wildfire activity over the past week, with multiple large fires burning across the country at high severity. Several fires were newly detected on 13 September, while a forest fire tracked since 2 September has burned over 16,900 hectares and continued to intensify, and another fire in the region was escalating with a sharp rise in fire radiative power.

Wildfire Multiple red-severity wildfires are active across Namibia. New fires detected on 13 September carried total fire radiative power readings as high as 14,546 MW, while Forest fires in Namibia, first tracked on 2 September, have burned 16,935 hectares and are escalating, with fire radiative power up 29% in 26 hours. Another ongoing Namibia wildfire is escalating with fire radiative power up 64% in 30 hours, and a wildfire in neighbouring Botswana affecting the Namibia region is also being newly tracked.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 at 15 Sept, 10:03 UTC from Hazardly's own event records for the seven days to 15 September 2026. Not reviewed by a person before publication. Outbreak lines name the disease and country only; WHO's bulletin text is on each outbreak's event page.