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Wildfires in Lamu

Lamu, Kenya: 17 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 2 constituencies since 2016, burning 20,720 hectares inside the region. The largest was Lamu West in January 2018, with 1,742 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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
20,720ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.3%
6,211 km²
fires
17
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
2
of 2
Largest fire
1,742ha
Lamu West · January 2018
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 32° · 55 % · 40 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 32° · 55 % · 44 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 60 % · 47 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 28° · 75 % · 39 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 68 % · 41 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 63 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 71 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 33° · 71 % · 43 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. Lamu East 16,876 ha · 7.8 %
  2. Lamu West 3,844 ha · 1.0 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

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

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202533,602 Lamu East 1,377 ha
202344,459 Lamu East 1,657 ha
202045,864 Lamu East 1,600 ha
201933,628 Lamu East 1,727 ha
201811,742 Lamu West 1,742 ha
20171379 Lamu East 379 ha
201611,045 Lamu West 1,045 ha

All fires in Lamu · 17

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).