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Wildfires in Samburu North

Samburu North, Kenya, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 11,677 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.4% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 35).

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 6 High 30° · 33 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sat 7 High 31° · 34 % · 43 km/h
  3. Sun 8 High 30° · 45 % · 41 km/h
  4. Mon 9 Moderate 30° · 41 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 10 High 30° · 39 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 11 Moderate 30° · 44 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 12 Very low 26° · 62 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 13 Very low 26° · 66 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Samburu North: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

11,677
hectares burned
1.4 %
of its area
4
fires
8,537
km²

How many times has Samburu North burned?

Samburu North has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Samburu North fire, February 2025, with 4,393 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
11,677
cumulative ha
18 Feb 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 Samburu North

  1. 4,393 ha Samburu North fire, February 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,363 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,095 ha Samburu North fire, March 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,088 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 4,415 ha Samburu North fire, 15 March 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,215 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,774 ha Samburu North fire, 15 March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,872 ha in total · 3 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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