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Wildfires in Lamu West

Lamu West, Kenya, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,844 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 67 % · 26 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 69 % · 24 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 34° · 54 % · 35 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 64 % · 33 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 56 % · 34 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 33° · 58 % · 34 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 73 % · 34 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

3,844
hectares burned
1.0 %
of its area
4
fires
3,918
km²

How many times has Lamu West burned?

Lamu West has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2025. The most recent: Lamu West fire, September 2025, with 1,052 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
3,844
cumulative ha
30 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 Lamu West

  1. 1,052 ha Lamu West fire, September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,045 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 5 ha Lamu East fire, October 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,597 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,742 ha Lamu West fire, January 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,730 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,045 ha Lamu West fire, March 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,040 ha in total · 21 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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