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Wildfires in Embu

Embu, Kenya: 2 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 4 constituencies since 2016, burning 3,204 hectares inside the region. The largest was Maara in February 2019, with 2,048 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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
3,204ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.1%
2,846 km²
fires
2
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 4
Largest fire
2,048ha
Maara · February 2019
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Low 28° · 47 % · 38 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 27° · 48 % · 33 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 26° · 44 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 26° · 57 % · 31 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 71 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 24° · 71 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 24° · 76 % · 36 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Manyatta 1,279 ha · 3.6 %
  2. Gachoka 1,156 ha · 0.9 %
  3. Runyenjes 769 ha · 2.1 %
  4. Siakago 0 ha · 0.0 %

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202511,156 Gachoka 1,156 ha
201912,048 Maara 2,048 ha

All fires in Embu · 2

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).