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Wildfire near Outjo, Namibia

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GDACS has tracked this wildfire near Outjo, Namibia since October 19, 2026, 5 days as of its latest update on October 24. It carries a GREEN alert: limited humanitarian impact expected. Satellites put the burned area at 98,130 acres (39,712 hectares, 397 km²), roughly 6.7 times the size of Manhattan, or about 74,341 American football fields.

TypeWildfire
GDACS alertGreen
CountryNamibia
SinceOct 19, 2026
Tracked for5 days
Burned area39,712 ha · 98,128 acres
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How the size is measured

GDACS estimates burned areas from satellite data, so the figures cover the whole fire complex and may include several fires burning close together.

Seen from space

Satellite picture, When tracking began · October 19, 2026
When tracking began · October 19, 2026
Satellite picture, Latest · October 23, 2026
Latest · October 23, 2026

True color from the VIIRS instrument on the NOAA-20 satellite. Red dots are fires detected by their heat; smoke shows as gray-brown haze. The ring marks where the event was reported. Pictures: NASA Worldview (GIBS) from the daily satellite passes; clouds can hide the ground on some days.

Did you know?

The first gigafire. California’s August Complex in 2020 burned more than 1 million acres (400,000 hectares), the first fire that large in the state’s modern records.

GDACS report. Source: GDACS, the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System of the United Nations and the European Commission (CC BY 4.0).

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