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Wildfires in Turkana

Turkana, Kenya: 92 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 6 constituencies since 2016, burning 169,212 hectares inside the region. The largest was Turkana West in 26 January 2021, with 12,496 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
169,212ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.4%
70,242 km²
fires
92
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 6
Largest fire
12,496ha
Turkana West · 26 January 2021
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 7 High 36° · 29 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Moderate 36° · 29 % · 34 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Low 34° · 38 % · 31 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Moderate 36° · 35 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 34° · 43 % · 24 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 28° · 67 % · 36 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 30° · 54 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 32° · 45 % · 30 km/h

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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. Turkana West 104,959 ha · 7.1 %
  2. Turkana North 39,279 ha · 1.9 %
  3. Turkana South 13,619 ha · 1.8 %
  4. Turkana East 6,988 ha · 0.6 %
  5. Loima 4,367 ha · 0.4 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

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

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20261318,134 Turkana West 4,325 ha
2025610,608 Turkana West 3,180 ha
202446,082 Turkana West 2,480 ha
202324,296 Turkana North 2,918 ha
20212972,602 Turkana West 12,496 ha
20201120,671 Turkana West 6,506 ha
20191010,356 Turkana North 1,535 ha
201867,526 Turkana North 1,613 ha
201713,031 Turkana North 3,031 ha
20161015,907 Turkana West 3,089 ha

All fires in Turkana · 93

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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