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Wildfires in Yatta

Yatta, Kenya, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2016: 106 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.1% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 Moderate 32° · 30 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 31° · 38 % · 32 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 31° · 25 % · 44 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 43 % · 41 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 27° · 57 % · 33 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 51 % · 34 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 29° · 51 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 28° · 52 % · 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.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

106
hectares burned
0.1 %
of its area
1
fires
1,067
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Yatta

  1. 106 ha Kitui Rural fire, August 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,405 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).