Wildfires in Busia
Busia, Kenya: 4 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 7 constituencies since 2016, burning 3,605 hectares inside the region. The largest was Budalangi in January 2022, with 1,393 hectares inside the region. 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.
- hectares burned
- 3,605ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.0%
- 1,827 km²
- fires
- 4
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 7
- Largest fire
- 1,393ha
- Budalangi · January 2022
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Very low 28° · 56 % · 28 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 29° · 55 % · 23 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 30° · 49 % · 26 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 27° · 61 % · 27 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 28° · 57 % · 32 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 29° · 56 % · 27 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 28° · 63 % · 34 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 28° · 60 % · 28 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Budalangi 3,605 ha · 12 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 4×Budalangi3,605 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,393 haBudalangiJanuary 2022 · 8 days of 1,587 ha in total
- 1,180 haBudalangiAugust 2026 · 15 days
- 845 haBudalangiJanuary 2026 · 4 days of 1,022 ha in total
- 187 haAlego UsongaSeptember 2026 · 7 days of 1,468 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Busia · 4
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
Where this data comes from
Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/RCMRD GeoPortal, Africa GeoPortal (Public Domain). 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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