Wildfires in Nyandarua
Nyandarua, Kenya: 9 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 5 constituencies since 2016, burning 19,287 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kieni in January 2017, with 5,096 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).
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
- 19,287ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 5.9%
- 3,295 km²
- fires
- 9
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 5
- Largest fire
- 5,096ha
- Kieni · January 2017
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Mon 2 Very low 20° · 55 % · 31 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 20° · 62 % · 31 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 20° · 61 % · 26 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 20° · 62 % · 28 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 18° · 71 % · 28 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 20° · 59 % · 28 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 19° · 70 % · 31 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 20° · 58 % · 29 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 5,096 haKieniJanuary 2017 · 8 days of 7,430 ha in total
- 3,900 haKipipiriFebruary 2019 · 5 days
- 3,538 haKieni6 February 2023 · 9 days of 4,665 ha in total
- 2,965 haKipipiriMarch 2022 · 9 days
- 2,504 haNdaragwaJune 2022 · 3 days
- 680 haNdaragwaFebruary 2023 · 3 days of 1,061 ha in total
- 344 haKieni7 February 2023 · 12 days of 5,107 ha in total
- 231 haTetuFebruary 2023 · 5 days of 1,114 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Nyandarua · 9
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 680 haNdaragwaFebruary 2023 · 3 days of 1,061 ha in total
- 231 haTetuFebruary 2023 · 5 days of 1,114 ha in total
- 344 haKieni7 February 2023 · 12 days of 5,107 ha in total
- 3,538 haKieni6 February 2023 · 9 days of 4,665 ha in total
- 2,504 haNdaragwaJune 2022 · 3 days
- 2,965 haKipipiriMarch 2022 · 9 days
- 30 haKieniMarch 2019 · 2 days of 1,010 ha in total
- 3,900 haKipipiriFebruary 2019 · 5 days
- 5,096 haKieniJanuary 2017 · 8 days of 7,430 ha in total
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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