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Wildfires in Ijara

Ijara, Kenya, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 2,460 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.3% 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 26 Very low 34° · 50 % · 43 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 60 % · 35 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 61 % · 31 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 72 % · 24 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 34° · 59 % · 36 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 34° · 42 % · 35 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 34° · 68 % · 45 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

2,460
hectares burned
0.3 %
of its area
2
fires
8,277
km²

How many times has Ijara burned?

Ijara has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Ijara fire, January 2026, with 1,206 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
2,460
cumulative ha
8 Jan 2026
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 Ijara

  1. 1,206 ha Ijara fire, January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,197 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,255 ha Ijara fire, January 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,246 ha in total · 1 day

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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