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Wildfires in Ndaragwa

Ndaragwa, Kenya, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 4,281 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.9% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 27).

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. Sat 24 High 26° · 25 % · 47 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 26° · 23 % · 52 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Low 25° · 34 % · 36 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 46 % · 44 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 55 % · 39 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 21° · 63 % · 39 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 21° · 64 % · 42 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 77 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

4,281
hectares burned
4.9 %
of its area
6
fires
879
km²

How many times has Ndaragwa burned?

Ndaragwa has burned 6 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Ndaragwa fire, February 2023, with 678 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,281 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 3,297 hectares, 3.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
4
years with fire
4,281
cumulative ha
3,297
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 Ndaragwa

  1. 678 ha Ndaragwa fire, February 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,061 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 67 ha Kieni fire, 8 February 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 4,665 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,396 ha Ndaragwa fire, June 2022 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,488 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 30 ha Kieni fire, March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,010 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 64 ha Kipipiri fire, February 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 3,874 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,046 ha Kieni fire, January 2017 1.2% of the municipality · 7,430 ha in total · 8 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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