Wildfires in Samburu
Samburu, Kenya: 5 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 3 constituencies since 2016, burning 13,626 hectares inside the region. The largest was Samburu North in 15 March 2019, with 4,415 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 39).
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
- 13,626ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.6%
- 21,219 km²
- fires
- 5
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 3
- Largest fire
- 4,415ha
- Samburu North · 15 March 2019
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very high 34° · 27 % · 51 km/h
- Sat 24 Very high 34° · 31 % · 46 km/h
- Sun 25 High 33° · 29 % · 49 km/h
- Mon 26 High 33° · 32 % · 54 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 27° · 60 % · 51 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 29° · 56 % · 43 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 30° · 52 % · 43 km/h
- Fri 30 Low 29° · 51 % · 43 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Samburu North 11,677 ha · 1.4 %
- Samburu East 1,949 ha · 0.2 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 4×Samburu North11,677 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 4,415 haSamburu North15 March 2019 · 4 days of 5,225 ha in total
- 4,393 haSamburu NorthFebruary 2025 · 6 days
- 1,949 haSamburu EastMarch 2017 · 10 days
- 1,774 haSamburu North15 March 2019 · 2 days of 1,872 ha in total
- 1,095 haSamburu NorthMarch 2022 · 13 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 | 1 | 4,393 | Samburu North 4,393 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 1,095 | Samburu North 1,095 ha |
| 2019 | 2 | 6,189 | Samburu North 4,415 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 1,949 | Samburu East 1,949 ha |
All fires in Samburu · 5
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).