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Wildfires in Isiolo South

Isiolo South, Kenya, has had 28 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 46,012 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.5% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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. Sat 14 Very low 34° · 40 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Moderate 35° · 39 % · 39 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Low 34° · 44 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Moderate 35° · 36 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Moderate 35° · 34 % · 33 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Moderate 36° · 36 % · 28 km/h
  7. Fri 20 High 36° · 35 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Moderate 36° · 38 % · 35 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Isiolo South: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

46,012
hectares burned
4.5 %
of its area
28
fires
10,146
km²

How many times has Isiolo South burned?

Isiolo South has burned 28 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Isiolo South fire, September 2026, with 1,119 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 46,012 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 35,470 hectares, 3.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 8× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 8× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 1× 26
28
fires
6
years with fire
46,012
cumulative ha
35,470
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 South

  1. 1,119 ha Isiolo South fire, September 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,111 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 2,566 ha Isiolo South fire, November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,537 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 385 ha Isiolo North fire, 31 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 280 ha Isiolo North fire, 31 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,909 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,443 ha Isiolo South fire, 30 January 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,433 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 211 ha Isiolo North fire, January 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,059 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 20,321 ha Isiolo South fire, 14 January 2025 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 28,977 ha in total · 19 days
  8. 138 ha Isiolo North fire, September 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,126 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,299 ha Isiolo South fire, April 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,284 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 2,597 ha Isiolo South fire, March 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,976 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 1,112 ha Isiolo South fire, 28 February 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,105 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 3,030 ha Isiolo South fire, 15 February 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,057 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 287 ha Isiolo North fire, 5 February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,375 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 1,148 ha Isiolo South fire, January 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,195 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 9 ha Isiolo North fire, January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,586 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 1,667 ha Isiolo South fire, December 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,703 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 25 ha Lagdera fire, 9 October 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,585 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 1,290 ha Isiolo South fire, August 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,281 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 172 ha Igembe North fire, August 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,074 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 394 ha Isiolo North fire, 21 June 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,455 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 1,050 ha Isiolo South fire, 18 June 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,043 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 1,124 ha Isiolo South fire, 18 June 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,117 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 408 ha Isiolo North fire, 10 June 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 7,275 ha in total · 14 days
  24. 1,289 ha Isiolo South fire, May 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,280 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 4 ha Isiolo North fire, 10 February 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 5,435 ha in total · 9 days
  26. 256 ha Isiolo North fire, 8 February 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 4,567 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 1,183 ha Isiolo South fire, January 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,175 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 206 ha Isiolo North fire, 19 August 2016 0.0% 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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