Wildfires in Tharaka
Tharaka, Kenya: 2 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 3 constituencies since 2016, burning 1,495 hectares inside the region. The largest was Maara in February 2019, with 1,316 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).
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
- 1,495ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.6%
- 2,689 km²
- fires
- 2
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 3
- Largest fire
- 1,316ha
- Maara · February 2019
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Very low 28° · 56 % · 44 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 28° · 46 % · 47 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 28° · 56 % · 40 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 25° · 69 % · 33 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 26° · 66 % · 27 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 25° · 78 % · 30 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 27° · 64 % · 34 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 26° · 77 % · 31 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×Maara588 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,316 haMaaraFebruary 2019 · 5 days of 7,943 ha in total
- 179 haSouth ImentiFebruary 2019 · 8 days of 8,531 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 | 1,495 | Maara 1,316 ha |
All fires in Tharaka · 2
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).
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