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Wildfires in Kitui Central

Kitui Central, Kenya, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 4,096 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.6% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 21).

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. Fri 23 Moderate 32° · 35 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 32° · 35 % · 35 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 33° · 25 % · 43 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 54 % · 41 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 59 % · 38 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 55 % · 34 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 53 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 55 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

4,096
hectares burned
5.6 %
of its area
6
fires
734
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kitui Central

  1. 1,022 ha Kitui Central fire, 24 September 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 1,034 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 23 ha Mwingi West fire, September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,202 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 650 ha Kitui Central fire, 17 September 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 1,200 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,161 ha Mwingi West fire, September 2025 1.6% of the municipality · 4,272 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 18 ha Kitui East fire, 25 September 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,277 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 1,223 ha Kitui Central fire, September 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,650 ha in total · 10 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).