Wildfires in Kericho
Kericho, Kenya: 2 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 5 constituencies since 2016, burning 3,484 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kipkelion East in March 2019, with 2,289 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
- 3,484ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.6%
- 2,116 km²
- fires
- 2
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 5
- Largest fire
- 2,289ha
- Kipkelion East · March 2019
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 28° · 45 % · 23 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 26° · 55 % · 25 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 26° · 49 % · 26 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 27° · 46 % · 26 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 24° · 60 % · 31 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 24° · 65 % · 30 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 23° · 69 % · 30 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 25° · 54 % · 32 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Kipkelion East 3,484 ha · 4.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×Kipkelion East3,484 ha
Largest recorded fires
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 1,195 | Kipkelion East 1,195 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 2,289 | Kipkelion East 2,289 ha |
All fires in Kericho · 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).