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Wildfires in Galole

Galole, Kenya, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 8,478 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.9% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 30).

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 High 36° · 37 % · 44 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 36° · 36 % · 48 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 36° · 39 % · 46 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 51 % · 45 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 55 % · 33 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 33° · 51 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 34° · 47 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 58 % · 30 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

8,478
hectares burned
0.9 %
of its area
4
fires
9,753
km²

How many times has Galole burned?

Galole has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2020 and 2024. The most recent: Garsen fire, May 2024, with 167 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
4
fires
2
years with fire
8,478
cumulative ha
12 May 2024
most recent

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 Galole

  1. 167 ha Garsen fire, May 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,310 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 6,009 ha Galole fire, May 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 11,626 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,072 ha Kitui South fire, May 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 2,277 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,229 ha Galole fire, March 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,221 ha in total · 2 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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