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Wildfires in Loima

Loima, Kenya, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 4,367 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.4% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 28).

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 High 33° · 25 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 33° · 26 % · 42 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 31° · 38 % · 42 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 32° · 32 % · 42 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 26° · 67 % · 41 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 52 % · 41 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 27° · 55 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 28° · 44 % · 41 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

4,367
hectares burned
0.4 %
of its area
4
fires
9,812
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Loima

  1. 1,195 ha Loima fire, February 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,187 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 656 ha Loima fire, 30 January 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,081 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,111 ha Loima fire, 28 January 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,103 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,406 ha Loima fire, 24 January 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,397 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).