Wildfires in Meru
Meru, Kenya: 9 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 9 constituencies since 2016, burning 42,589 hectares inside the region. The largest was Cental Imenti in March 2022, with 11,464 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).
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
- 42,589ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 6.1%
- 6,946 km²
- fires
- 9
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 6
- of 9
- Largest fire
- 11,464ha
- Cental Imenti · March 2022
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Low 30° · 34 % · 31 km/h
- Sat 24 Moderate 30° · 33 % · 41 km/h
- Sun 25 Moderate 28° · 37 % · 49 km/h
- Mon 26 Low 28° · 49 % · 60 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 25° · 67 % · 50 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 25° · 62 % · 40 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 26° · 64 % · 30 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 26° · 65 % · 31 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Cental Imenti 20,053 ha · 26 %
- Buuri 10,453 ha · 7.9 %
- South Imenti 8,271 ha · 12 %
- Igembe North 1,917 ha · 1.8 %
- Igembe South 1,894 ha · 2.2 %
- Igembe Central 2 ha · 0.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 5×Cental Imenti20,053 ha
- 4×Buuri10,453 ha
- 2×South Imenti8,271 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 11,464 haCental ImentiMarch 2022 · 8 days
- 10,047 haCental ImentiSeptember 2026 · 7 days
- 8,410 haSouth ImentiFebruary 2019 · 8 days
- 2,554 haBuuriOctober 2016 · 3 days
- 2,409 haBuuriApril 2019 · 5 days
- 2,229 haCental ImentiJuly 2017 · 3 days
- 1,917 haIgembe NorthAugust 2020 · 2 days of 2,074 ha in total
- 1,896 haIgembe SouthOctober 2025 · 4 days
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 | 10,047 | Cental Imenti 10,047 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 1,896 | Igembe South 1,896 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 11,464 | Cental Imenti 11,464 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 1,917 | Igembe North 1,917 ha |
| 2019 | 2 | 10,819 | South Imenti 8,410 ha |
| 2017 | 2 | 3,894 | Cental Imenti 2,229 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 2,554 | Buuri 2,554 ha |
All fires in Meru · 9
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 10,047 haCental ImentiSeptember 2026 · 7 days
- 1,896 haIgembe SouthOctober 2025 · 4 days
- 11,464 haCental ImentiMarch 2022 · 8 days
- 1,917 haIgembe NorthAugust 2020 · 2 days of 2,074 ha in total
- 2,409 haBuuriApril 2019 · 5 days
- 8,410 haSouth ImentiFebruary 2019 · 8 days
- 2,229 haCental ImentiJuly 2017 · 3 days
- 1,665 haBuuriFebruary 2017 · 5 days
- 2,554 haBuuriOctober 2016 · 3 days
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).