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Wildfires in North Horr

North Horr, Kenya, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 36,827 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 89).

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. Thu 5 Very extreme 35° · 30 % · 66 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very extreme 34° · 34 % · 64 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very high 35° · 31 % · 52 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Extreme 36° · 34 % · 52 km/h
  5. Mon 9 Very high 35° · 43 % · 44 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Very high 37° · 30 % · 50 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Moderate 36° · 34 % · 53 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 30° · 58 % · 44 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 North Horr: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

36,827
hectares burned
0.9 %
of its area
15
fires
40,834
km²

How many times has North Horr burned?

North Horr has burned 15 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: North Horr fire, September 2025, with 12,120 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11.   26
15
fires
5
years with fire
36,827
cumulative ha
1 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 North Horr

  1. 12,120 ha North Horr fire, September 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 12,022 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 2,114 ha North Horr fire, August 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,099 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 1,537 ha North Horr fire, June 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,525 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 845 ha North Horr fire, 28 February 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,184 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,271 ha North Horr fire, 27 February 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,261 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,762 ha North Horr fire, December 2024 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,750 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,976 ha North Horr fire, September 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,953 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 2,737 ha North Horr fire, March 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,717 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 1,346 ha North Horr fire, March 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,336 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 3,169 ha North Horr fire, February 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 5,622 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 1,455 ha North Horr fire, 18 January 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,445 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,027 ha North Horr fire, 3 January 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,019 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 1,657 ha North Horr fire, March 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,646 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 1,539 ha North Horr fire, 30 January 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,529 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 1,271 ha North Horr fire, 8 January 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 1,262 ha in total · 1 day

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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