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Wildfires in Cental Imenti

Cental Imenti, Kenya, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 20,053 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 26% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Tue 27 Very low 18° · 51 % · 43 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 17° · 60 % · 30 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 74 % · 35 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 78 % · 33 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 14° · 79 % · 28 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 61 % · 38 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 17° · 57 % · 36 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 16° · 68 % · 32 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

20,053
hectares burned
26 %
of its area
5
fires
777
km²

How many times has Cental Imenti burned?

Cental Imenti has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Cental Imenti fire, September 2026, with 7,468 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 20,053 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 13,639 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
5
years with fire
20,053
cumulative ha
13,639
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 Cental Imenti

  1. 7,468 ha Cental Imenti fire, September 2026 where it started 9.6% of the municipality · 9,979 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 6,912 ha Cental Imenti fire, March 2022 where it started 8.9% of the municipality · 11,387 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 2,717 ha South Imenti fire, February 2019 3.5% of the municipality · 8,531 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 2,229 ha Cental Imenti fire, July 2017 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 2,214 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 727 ha Buuri fire, October 2016 0.9% 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).

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