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Wildfires in Kitui South

Kitui South, Kenya, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 4,275 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.3% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 Very high 36° · 32 % · 55 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 31° · 47 % · 41 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 33° · 45 % · 33 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 52 % · 36 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 60 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 66 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 53 % · 28 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 60 % · 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

4,275
hectares burned
0.3 %
of its area
3
fires
12,804
km²

How many times has Kitui South burned?

Kitui South has burned 3 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2020. The most recent: Kitui South fire, October 2020, with 2,882 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
1
years with fire
4,275
cumulative ha
6 Oct 2020
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 South

  1. 2,882 ha Kitui South fire, October 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,863 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 173 ha Kibwezi East fire, 15 September 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,051 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,220 ha Kitui South fire, May 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,277 ha in total · 6 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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