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Wildfires in Kibwezi West

Kibwezi West, Kenya, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 9,008 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.1% 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. Thu 12 Low 30° · 45 % · 28 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Very low 25° · 64 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Very low 29° · 48 % · 33 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Very low 29° · 56 % · 33 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Very low 26° · 66 % · 33 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Very low 27° · 65 % · 30 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Very low 27° · 60 % · 35 km/h
  8. Thu 19 Very low 27° · 67 % · 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 Kibwezi West: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

9,008
hectares burned
5.1 %
of its area
5
fires
1,779
km²

How many times has Kibwezi West burned?

Kibwezi West has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2020, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kibwezi West fire, October 2026, with 2,832 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,008 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,183 hectares, 4.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
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  5. 2× 20
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  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
9,008
cumulative ha
7,183
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 Kibwezi West

  1. 2,832 ha Kibwezi West fire, October 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,813 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 3,088 ha Kibwezi West fire, September 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,115 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 107 ha Kibwezi East fire, 1 October 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 7,191 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 222 ha Kibwezi East fire, 1 September 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 1,602 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 2,759 ha Kibwezi West fire, October 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,741 ha in total · 8 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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