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Wildfires in Mwatate

Mwatate, Kenya, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 18,889 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.1% 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 34° · 36 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 34° · 30 % · 42 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 34° · 34 % · 51 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 68 % · 43 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 59 % · 49 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 50 % · 40 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 44 % · 42 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 48 % · 32 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

18,889
hectares burned
5.1 %
of its area
8
fires
3,714
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Mwatate

  1. 3,180 ha Mwatate fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,159 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,865 ha Mwatate fire, 11 October 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,925 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 4,790 ha Mwatate fire, 23 September 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 5,038 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 1,777 ha Mwatate fire, 23 September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,764 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 2,619 ha Mwatate fire, December 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,601 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,384 ha Mwatate fire, May 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,374 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,235 ha Mwatate fire, August 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,228 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 1,041 ha Mwatate fire, September 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,040 ha in total · 9 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).