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Wildfires in Makueni

Makueni, Kenya: 24 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 6 constituencies since 2016, burning 44,155 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kibwezi East in 1 October 2020, with 6,744 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 27).

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
44,155ha
Since 2016
Of the region
5.5%
8,040 km²
fires
24
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
2
of 6
Largest fire
6,744ha
Kibwezi East · 1 October 2020
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 25 High 33° · 31 % · 52 km/h
  2. Mon 26 High 32° · 33 % · 39 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 38 % · 43 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 32° · 42 % · 39 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 47 % · 32 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 29° · 57 % · 36 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 28° · 60 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 28° · 47 % · 36 km/h
  9. Mon 2 Very low 28° · 57 % · 33 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Kibwezi East 35,147 ha · 16 %
  2. Kibwezi West 9,008 ha · 5.1 %

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
202623,873 Kibwezi West 2,832 ha
202537,023 Kibwezi West 3,396 ha
202445,691 Kibwezi East 3,301 ha
202211,532 Kibwezi East 1,532 ha
202122,300 Kibwezi East 1,199 ha
2020613,919 Kibwezi East 6,744 ha
201935,447 Kibwezi East 1,971 ha
201711,058 Kibwezi East 1,058 ha
201623,313 Kibwezi West 2,759 ha

All fires in Makueni · 24

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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