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Wildfires in South Imenti

South Imenti, Kenya, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 8,271 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% 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. Tue 3 Very low 16° · 57 % · 37 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 17° · 58 % · 31 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 14° · 87 % · 31 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 15° · 72 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 16° · 69 % · 31 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 17° · 74 % · 34 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 16° · 66 % · 37 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 17° · 66 % · 34 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

8,271
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
2
fires
665
km²

How many times has South Imenti burned?

South Imenti has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Cental Imenti fire, September 2026, with 2,579 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,271 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,287 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
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  4. 1× 19
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  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
8,271
cumulative ha
7,287
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 South Imenti

  1. 2,579 ha Cental Imenti fire, September 2026 3.9% of the municipality · 9,979 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 5,692 ha South Imenti fire, February 2019 where it started 8.6% of the municipality · 8,531 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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