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Wildfires in Lamu East

Lamu East, Kenya, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 16,876 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 8 Very low 30° · 71 % · 27 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Very low 29° · 79 % · 27 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low 29° · 77 % · 28 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very low 29° · 75 % · 25 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 29° · 75 % · 32 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 31° · 65 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 28° · 78 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very low 29° · 79 % · 25 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Lamu East: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

16,876
hectares burned
7.8 %
of its area
14
fires
2,169
km²

How many times has Lamu East burned?

Lamu East has burned 14 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Lamu East fire, October 2025, with 1,173 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 16,876 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,964 hectares, 7.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
14
fires
5
years with fire
16,876
cumulative ha
15,964
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 Lamu East

  1. 1,173 ha Lamu East fire, October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,165 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,377 ha Lamu East fire, March 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,368 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,657 ha Lamu East fire, 16 March 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,785 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 825 ha Lamu East fire, 16 March 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,049 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,518 ha Lamu East fire, 12 March 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,508 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 459 ha Lamu East fire, February 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,035 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,595 ha Lamu East fire, October 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,597 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 1,324 ha Lamu East fire, 8 September 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,315 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,527 ha Lamu East fire, 8 September 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,517 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,414 ha Lamu East fire, March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,404 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 1,727 ha Lamu East fire, 26 March 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,715 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 623 ha Lamu East fire, 6 March 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,034 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 1,278 ha Lamu East fire, February 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,595 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 379 ha Lamu East fire, March 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,046 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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