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Wildfires in Wajir West

Wajir West, Kenya, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 2,885 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.4% 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. Thu 12 Very low 33° · 47 % · 29 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Very low 33° · 49 % · 34 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Very low 33° · 50 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Very low 31° · 59 % · 26 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Very low 31° · 55 % · 31 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Very low 32° · 50 % · 33 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Very low 33° · 50 % · 30 km/h
  8. Thu 19 Very low 33° · 49 % · 27 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 Wajir West: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

2,885
hectares burned
0.4 %
of its area
2
fires
8,179
km²

How many times has Wajir West burned?

Wajir West has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2020. The most recent: Wajir West fire, April 2020, with 1,091 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
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  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
2,885
cumulative ha
9 Apr 2020
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 Wajir West

  1. 1,091 ha Wajir West fire, April 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,795 ha Wajir West fire, January 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,783 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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