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Wildfires in Nakuru

Nakuru, Kenya: 3 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 11 constituencies since 2016, burning 2,819 hectares inside the region. The largest was Njoro in February 2023, with 1,638 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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
2,819ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.4%
7,496 km²
fires
3
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 11
Largest fire
1,638ha
Njoro · February 2023
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 25° · 31 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 25° · 26 % · 37 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 25° · 29 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 25° · 34 % · 37 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 52 % · 39 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 23° · 53 % · 38 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 53 % · 40 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 48 % · 37 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. Njoro 1,631 ha · 2.1 %
  2. Rongai 1,081 ha · 1.0 %
  3. Kuresoi North 41 ha · 0.1 %
  4. Bahati 38 ha · 0.1 %
  5. Nakuru Town West 23 ha · 0.2 %
  6. Gilgil 7 ha · 0.0 %

Largest recorded fires

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

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
2026141 Kipkelion East 41 ha
202311,638 Njoro 1,638 ha
201911,141 Rongai 1,141 ha

All fires in Nakuru · 3

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).