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Wildfires in Isiolo North

Isiolo North, Kenya, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 54,817 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.6% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Wed 28 Low 36° · 34 % · 32 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 36° · 35 % · 32 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 35° · 38 % · 33 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Low 34° · 35 % · 35 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Moderate 34° · 34 % · 36 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Moderate 35° · 30 % · 32 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Moderate 36° · 31 % · 34 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Moderate 36° · 32 % · 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

54,817
hectares burned
3.6 %
of its area
22
fires
15,426
km²

How many times has Isiolo North burned?

Isiolo North has burned 22 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Isiolo North fire, February 2026, with 1,339 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 54,817 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 30,080 hectares, 1.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 7× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 2× 26
22
fires
7
years with fire
54,817
cumulative ha
30,080
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 Isiolo North

  1. 1,339 ha Isiolo North fire, February 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,330 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,672 ha Isiolo North fire, January 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,661 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 636 ha Isiolo North fire, 31 October 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 2,648 ha Isiolo North fire, 31 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,909 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 2,869 ha Isiolo North fire, January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,059 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 8,854 ha Isiolo South fire, 14 January 2025 0.6% of the municipality · 28,977 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 1,618 ha Isiolo North fire, September 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,608 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 995 ha Isiolo North fire, September 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,126 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,413 ha Isiolo South fire, March 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 4,976 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 2,411 ha Isiolo North fire, 25 February 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,395 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 48 ha Isiolo South fire, 15 February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,057 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,098 ha Isiolo North fire, 5 February 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,375 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 1,062 ha Isiolo South fire, January 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 2,195 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 1,587 ha Isiolo North fire, January 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,586 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 1,030 ha Isiolo North fire, October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,024 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 2,077 ha Isiolo North fire, 21 June 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,455 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 6,917 ha Isiolo North fire, 10 June 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,275 ha in total · 14 days
  18. 0 ha Isiolo South fire, May 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,280 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 5,467 ha Isiolo North fire, 10 February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,435 ha in total · 9 days
  20. 4,342 ha Isiolo North fire, 8 February 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,567 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 2,386 ha Isiolo North fire, 31 August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,370 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 3,347 ha Isiolo North fire, 19 August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,529 ha in total · 7 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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