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Wildfires in Kitui East

Kitui East, Kenya, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 8,220 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.7% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Mon 26 High 35° · 32 % · 56 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 58 % · 41 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 60 % · 26 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 61 % · 31 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 68 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 50 % · 32 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 63 % · 33 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

8,220
hectares burned
1.7 %
of its area
9
fires
4,757
km²

How many times has Kitui East burned?

Kitui East has burned 9 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kitui Central fire, 24 September 2026, with 19 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,220 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,573 hectares, 1.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
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  4.   19
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  10. 4× 25
  11. 5× 26
9
fires
2
years with fire
8,220
cumulative ha
6,573
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 Kitui East

  1. 19 ha Kitui Central fire, 24 September 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,034 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,087 ha Kitui East fire, 24 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,080 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 558 ha Kitui Central fire, 17 September 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 1,200 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,075 ha Kitui East fire, 14 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,068 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 1,164 ha Kitui East fire, 14 September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,156 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 2,102 ha Kitui East fire, 21 September 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,088 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 509 ha Mwingi West fire, September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 4,272 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 438 ha Kitui Central fire, September 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,650 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 1,267 ha Kitui East fire, 18 September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,277 ha in total · 15 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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