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Wildfires in Kitui Rural

Kitui Rural, Kenya, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2016: 2,316 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.5% 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. Sun 25 High 32° · 30 % · 37 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 30° · 39 % · 42 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 30° · 43 % · 39 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 53 % · 32 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 28° · 59 % · 36 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 67 % · 34 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 27° · 60 % · 39 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 50 % · 37 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

2,316
hectares burned
1.5 %
of its area
1
fires
1,539
km²

How many times has Kitui Rural burned?

Kitui Rural has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2016. The most recent: Kitui Rural fire, August 2016, with 2,316 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
2,316
cumulative ha
25 Aug 2016
most recent

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 Rural

  1. 2,316 ha Kitui Rural fire, August 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,405 ha in total · 1 day

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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