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Wildfires in Mwingi West

Mwingi West, Kenya, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 2,261 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.9% 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. Mon 9 Very low 28° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  2. Tue 10 Very low 27° · 63 % · 29 km/h
  3. Wed 11 Very low 25° · 72 % · 27 km/h
  4. Thu 12 Very low 26° · 67 % · 26 km/h
  5. Fri 13 Very low 26° · 67 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sat 14 Very low 24° · 82 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sun 15 Very low 26° · 66 % · 33 km/h
  8. Mon 16 Very low 24° · 83 % · 39 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 Mwingi West: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,261
hectares burned
1.9 %
of its area
2
fires
1,189
km²

How many times has Mwingi West burned?

Mwingi West has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mwingi West fire, September 2026, with 967 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,261 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,698 hectares, 1.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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2
fires
2
years with fire
2,261
cumulative ha
1,698
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 Mwingi West

  1. 967 ha Mwingi West fire, September 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,202 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,295 ha Mwingi West fire, September 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,272 ha in total · 16 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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