Wildfires in Kieni
Kieni, Kenya, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 8,870 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.9% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).
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- Fri 23 Moderate 28° · 28 % · 38 km/h
- Sat 24 Moderate 27° · 27 % · 41 km/h
- Sun 25 Moderate 27° · 28 % · 50 km/h
- Mon 26 Low 26° · 44 % · 48 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 23° · 60 % · 46 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 24° · 58 % · 33 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 25° · 49 % · 30 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 24° · 47 % · 23 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
- 8,870
- hectares burned
- 4.9 %
- of its area
- 5
- fires
- 1,827
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Kieni
- 388 ha Ndaragwa fire, February 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 1,061 ha in total · 3 days
- 1,159 ha Kieni fire, 8 February 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,665 ha in total · 7 days
- 3,953 ha Kieni fire, 8 February 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 5,107 ha in total · 10 days
- 987 ha Kieni fire, March 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,010 ha in total · 2 days
- 2,384 ha Kieni fire, January 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 7,430 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).