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Wildfires in Baringo South

Baringo South, Kenya, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 3,732 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.0% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 4 Moderate 34° · 25 % · 34 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Moderate 33° · 32 % · 31 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 33° · 35 % · 28 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low 31° · 43 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Low 32° · 43 % · 31 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low 30° · 53 % · 35 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Low 31° · 38 % · 36 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Low 34° · 28 % · 35 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Baringo South: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,732
hectares burned
2.0 %
of its area
4
fires
1,839
km²

How many times has Baringo South burned?

Baringo South has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021. The most recent: Laikipia East fire, January 2021, with 250 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,732 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,524 hectares, 1.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
3,732
cumulative ha
3,524
distinct ha

Fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Kenya

Fires that entered Baringo South

  1. 250 ha Laikipia East fire, January 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 8,580 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 2,535 ha Baringo South fire, December 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,646 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 275 ha Laikipia East fire, February 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 6,394 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 671 ha Baringo South fire, March 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,022 ha in total · 16 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/IEBC, OCHA ROSEA (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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