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Wildfires in Taveta

Taveta, Kenya, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 17,169 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.3% 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 23 High 33° · 32 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 33° · 26 % · 44 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 32° · 32 % · 52 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 73 % · 44 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 54 % · 50 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 50 % · 42 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 51 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 62 % · 40 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

17,169
hectares burned
4.3 %
of its area
11
fires
4,035
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Taveta

  1. 282 ha Mwatate fire, 23 September 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 5,038 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 2,667 ha Taveta fire, 13 September 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,650 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,227 ha Taveta fire, 13 September 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,219 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 507 ha Wundanyi fire, October 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,332 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,248 ha Taveta fire, 9 August 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,240 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,093 ha Taveta fire, 8 August 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,086 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 2,863 ha Taveta fire, 8 August 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,845 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,188 ha Taveta fire, 22 July 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,180 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 2,041 ha Taveta fire, 22 July 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,027 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 2,643 ha Taveta fire, 21 July 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,625 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 1,409 ha Taveta fire, 6 July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,399 ha in total · 2 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).