Wildfires in Kajiado
Kajiado, Kenya: 17 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 5 constituencies since 2016, burning 15,913 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kajiado West in September 2020, with 1,957 hectares inside the region. 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.
- hectares burned
- 15,913ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.7%
- 21,970 km²
- fires
- 17
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 5
- Largest fire
- 1,957ha
- Kajiado West · September 2020
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 27 Moderate 29° · 32 % · 48 km/h
- Wed 28 Low 28° · 42 % · 34 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 29° · 40 % · 37 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 26° · 57 % · 31 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 25° · 69 % · 42 km/h
- Sun 1 Very low 26° · 50 % · 43 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 25° · 53 % · 36 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 25° · 63 % · 37 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Kajiado South 9,178 ha · 1.4 %
- Kajiado West 6,730 ha · 0.9 %
- Kajiado Central 4 ha · 0.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 13×Kajiado South9,178 ha
- 4×Kajiado West6,730 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,957 haKajiado WestSeptember 2020 · 2 days
- 1,868 haKajiado SouthAugust 2020 · 3 days
- 1,855 haKajiado SouthOctober 2024 · 2 days
- 1,653 haKajiado West24 November 2020 · 2 days
- 1,565 haKajiado West22 November 2020 · 4 days
- 1,559 haKajiado WestSeptember 2026 · 2 days
- 1,462 haKajiado SouthSeptember 2025 · 5 days
- 1,047 haKajiado SouthSeptember 2026 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 2,633 | Kajiado West 1,559 ha |
| 2025 | 3 | 2,295 | Kajiado South 1,462 ha |
| 2024 | 2 | 2,454 | Kajiado South 1,855 ha |
| 2020 | 6 | 7,539 | Kajiado West 1,957 ha |
| 2019 | 2 | 429 | Kibwezi East 415 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 562 | Kajiado South 562 ha |
All fires in Kajiado · 17
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,559 haKajiado WestSeptember 2026 · 2 days
- 1,047 haKajiado SouthSeptember 2026 · 1 day
- 26 haKibwezi EastAugust 2026 · 6 days of 1,060 ha in total
- 777 haKibwezi WestSeptember 2025 · 9 days of 4,145 ha in total
- 1,462 haKajiado SouthSeptember 2025 · 5 days
- 56 haVoiSeptember 2025 · 6 days of 4,296 ha in total
- 1,855 haKajiado SouthOctober 2024 · 2 days
- 598 haKibwezi EastSeptember 2024 · 3 days of 3,873 ha in total
- 1,653 haKajiado West24 November 2020 · 2 days
- 1,565 haKajiado West22 November 2020 · 4 days
- 495 haKibwezi East1 October 2020 · 13 days of 7,191 ha in total
- 1,957 haKajiado WestSeptember 2020 · 2 days
- 1 haKibwezi East1 September 2020 · 4 days of 1,602 ha in total
- 1,868 haKajiado SouthAugust 2020 · 3 days
- 14 haKibwezi East30 July 2019 · 4 days of 1,588 ha in total
- 415 haKibwezi East12 July 2019 · 4 days of 2,370 ha in total
- 562 haKajiado SouthAugust 2016 · 2 days of 1,109 ha in total
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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