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Wildfires in Gichugu

Gichugu, Kenya, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2019: 2,612 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.5% 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. Mon 2 Very low 12° · 80 % · 24 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 12° · 90 % · 21 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 14° · 74 % · 24 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 13° · 84 % · 24 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 12° · 90 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 14° · 75 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 14° · 74 % · 33 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 15° · 61 % · 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

2,612
hectares burned
5.5 %
of its area
1
fires
471
km²

How many times has Gichugu burned?

Gichugu has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2019. The most recent: Maara fire, February 2019, with 2,612 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
2,612
cumulative ha
24 Feb 2019
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 Gichugu

  1. 2,612 ha Maara fire, February 2019 5.6% of the municipality · 7,943 ha in total · 6 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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