Wildfires in Marsabit
Marsabit, Kenya: 25 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 4 constituencies since 2016, burning 63,042 hectares inside the region. The largest was North Horr in September 2025, with 12,120 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).
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
- 63,042ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.8%
- 76,449 km²
- fires
- 25
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 4
- Largest fire
- 12,120ha
- North Horr · September 2025
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Very high 37° · 36 % · 44 km/h
- Sun 25 High 36° · 31 % · 39 km/h
- Mon 26 High 36° · 35 % · 45 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 33° · 52 % · 35 km/h
- Wed 28 Low 34° · 41 % · 31 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 34° · 39 % · 36 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 34 % · 40 km/h
- Sat 31 High 34° · 32 % · 46 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- North Horr 36,827 ha · 0.9 %
- Laisamis 26,215 ha · 1.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 15×North Horr36,827 ha
- 10×Laisamis26,215 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 12,120 haNorth HorrSeptember 2025 · 11 days
- 4,927 haLaisamisSeptember 2025 · 6 days
- 4,314 haLaisamisJune 2020 · 5 days
- 3,893 haLaisamisOctober 2024 · 4 days
- 3,169 haNorth HorrFebruary 2021 · 8 days of 5,622 ha in total
- 2,976 haNorth HorrSeptember 2024 · 4 days
- 2,737 haNorth HorrMarch 2024 · 2 days
- 2,522 haLaisamisOctober 2020 · 3 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | 25,219 | North Horr 12,120 ha |
| 2024 | 4 | 11,368 | Laisamis 3,893 ha |
| 2021 | 5 | 8,169 | North Horr 3,169 ha |
| 2020 | 6 | 13,498 | Laisamis 4,314 ha |
| 2019 | 3 | 4,788 | Laisamis 1,977 ha |
All fires in Marsabit · 25
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 4,927 haLaisamisSeptember 2025 · 6 days
- 12,120 haNorth HorrSeptember 2025 · 11 days
- 2,114 haNorth HorrAugust 2025 · 3 days
- 1,537 haNorth HorrJune 2025 · 6 days
- 845 haNorth Horr28 February 2025 · 2 days of 1,184 ha in total
- 1,271 haNorth Horr28 February 2025 · 1 day
- 2,404 haLaisamisFebruary 2025 · 3 days
- 1,762 haNorth HorrDecember 2024 · 3 days
- 3,893 haLaisamisOctober 2024 · 4 days
- 2,976 haNorth HorrSeptember 2024 · 4 days
- 2,737 haNorth HorrMarch 2024 · 2 days
- 1,172 haLaisamisSeptember 2021 · 4 days
- 1,346 haNorth HorrMarch 2021 · 3 days
- 3,169 haNorth HorrFebruary 2021 · 8 days of 5,622 ha in total
- 1,455 haNorth Horr18 January 2021 · 3 days
- 1,027 haNorth Horr3 January 2021 · 2 days
- 2,522 haLaisamisOctober 2020 · 3 days
- 1,541 haLaisamisAugust 2020 · 4 days
- 1,011 haLaisamisJuly 2020 · 1 day
- 4,314 haLaisamisJune 2020 · 5 days
- 1,657 haNorth HorrMarch 2020 · 2 days
- 2,454 haLaisamisMarch 2020 · 2 days
- 1,977 haLaisamisFebruary 2019 · 1 day
- 1,539 haNorth Horr30 January 2019 · 2 days
- 1,271 haNorth Horr8 January 2019 · 1 day
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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