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Wildfires in Kipipiri

Kipipiri, Kenya, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 15,006 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Sun 25 Low 24° · 29 % · 28 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 22° · 45 % · 26 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 50 % · 26 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 20° · 75 % · 24 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 76 % · 25 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 20° · 76 % · 28 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 21° · 65 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 71 % · 29 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

15,006
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
8
fires
947
km²

How many times has Kipipiri burned?

Kipipiri has burned 8 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Ndaragwa fire, February 2023, with 3 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 15,006 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,427 hectares, 10.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
8
fires
4
years with fire
15,006
cumulative ha
9,427
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 Kipipiri

  1. 3 ha Ndaragwa fire, February 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,061 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 230 ha Tetu fire, February 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 1,114 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 3,471 ha Kieni fire, 8 February 2023 3.7% of the municipality · 4,665 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 344 ha Kieni fire, 8 February 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 5,107 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 108 ha Ndaragwa fire, June 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 2,488 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 2,965 ha Kipipiri fire, March 2022 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 2,945 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 3,836 ha Kipipiri fire, February 2019 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 3,874 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 4,050 ha Kieni fire, January 2017 4.3% 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).

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