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Wildfires in Buuri

Buuri, Kenya, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 10,453 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.9% 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. Fri 23 Very low 19° · 46 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 18° · 47 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 18° · 56 % · 46 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 18° · 62 % · 41 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 16° · 84 % · 40 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 16° · 74 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 63 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 71 % · 34 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

10,453
hectares burned
7.9 %
of its area
4
fires
1,323
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Buuri

  1. 4,552 ha Cental Imenti fire, March 2022 3.4% of the municipality · 11,387 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 2,409 ha Buuri fire, April 2019 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,393 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,665 ha Buuri fire, February 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 1,654 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 1,827 ha Buuri fire, October 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,537 ha in total · 3 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).