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Wildfires in Budalangi

Budalangi, Kenya, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 3,605 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Mon 26 Very low 27° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 68 % · 28 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 25° · 72 % · 26 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 25° · 73 % · 21 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 74 % · 31 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 25° · 77 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 26° · 65 % · 28 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 25° · 69 % · 28 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

3,605
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
4
fires
312
km²

How many times has Budalangi burned?

Budalangi has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Alego Usonga fire, September 2026, with 187 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 3,605 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,412 hectares, 7.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
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  4.   19
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  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
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  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
4
fires
2
years with fire
3,605
cumulative ha
2,412
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 Budalangi

  1. 187 ha Alego Usonga fire, September 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 1,468 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,180 ha Budalangi fire, August 2026 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 1,172 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 845 ha Budalangi fire, January 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 1,022 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 1,393 ha Budalangi fire, January 2022 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 1,587 ha in total · 12 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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