Wildfires in Wajir
Wajir, Kenya: 7 fires with a page have entered 2 of its 6 constituencies since 2016, burning 8,461 hectares inside the region. The largest was Wajir West in January 2020, with 1,795 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 25).
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
- 8,461ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.1%
- 57,087 km²
- fires
- 7
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 6
- Largest fire
- 1,795ha
- Wajir West · January 2020
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 High 35° · 36 % · 32 km/h
- Sat 24 High 34° · 43 % · 31 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 32° · 53 % · 34 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 30° · 64 % · 30 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 29° · 74 % · 25 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 30° · 61 % · 20 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 29° · 66 % · 26 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 31° · 61 % · 23 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Wajir South 5,576 ha · 0.3 %
- Wajir West 2,885 ha · 0.4 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 5×Wajir South5,576 ha
- 2×Wajir West2,885 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,795 haWajir WestJanuary 2020 · 1 day
- 1,626 haWajir South16 February 2016 · 2 days
- 1,593 haWajir SouthFebruary 2020 · 4 days
- 1,242 haWajir South16 February 2016 · 1 day
- 1,108 haWajir SouthJune 2020 · 2 days
- 1,091 haWajir WestApril 2020 · 3 days
- 7 haLagdera10 October 2020 · 6 days of 2,676 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | 5,593 | Wajir West 1,795 ha |
| 2016 | 2 | 2,868 | Wajir South 1,626 ha |
All fires in Wajir · 7
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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