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Wildfires in Laisamis

Laisamis, Kenya, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 26,215 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 43).

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 Very high 36° · 27 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 36° · 34 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 35° · 31 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 35° · 33 % · 43 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 46 % · 45 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 34° · 37 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 38 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 33° · 41 % · 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

26,215
hectares burned
1.1 %
of its area
10
fires
24,241
km²

How many times has Laisamis burned?

Laisamis has burned 10 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Laisamis fire, September 2025, with 4,927 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
10
fires
5
years with fire
26,215
cumulative ha
17 Sept 2025
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 Laisamis

  1. 4,927 ha Laisamis fire, September 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,896 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,404 ha Laisamis fire, February 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,387 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 3,893 ha Laisamis fire, October 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,867 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,172 ha Laisamis fire, September 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,165 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 2,522 ha Laisamis fire, October 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,507 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,541 ha Laisamis fire, August 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,531 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,011 ha Laisamis fire, July 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,004 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 4,314 ha Laisamis fire, June 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,285 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,454 ha Laisamis fire, March 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,437 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,977 ha Laisamis fire, February 2019 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,964 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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