Wildfires in Kenya
Situation over the last 30 days
442 fires detected in Kenya over the last 30 days, totalling 99,794 hectares of cumulative footprint. The latest satellite detection (NASA FIRMS) dates from October 22 at 01:53 PM.
The savannas in Kenya burn every dry season, over huge areas but with fast, low-intensity grass fires, largely lit for farming and grazing. Detections are numerous; destructive forest fires are rare.
- orientale (KE)from September 23 at 12:19 PM to October 22 at 01:53 PM9,376 ha
- Côte (KE)from October 10 at 12:58 PM to October 16 at 01:46 AM9,247 ha
- Côte (KE)from September 23 at 12:19 PM to September 24 at 02:59 PM5,661 ha
- orientale (KE)from September 24 at 12:02 PM to September 30 at 03:31 PM2,168 ha
- orientale (KE)from September 23 at 12:58 PM to October 5 at 01:36 PM1,946 ha
- Nyanza (KE)from September 30 at 12:26 PM to October 6 at 01:53 PM1,808 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from September 26 at 12:19 PM to September 28 at 12:44 AM1,417 ha
- orientale (KE)from September 23 at 12:19 PM to October 10 at 12:38 PM1,391 ha
- orientale (KE)from October 2 at 12:09 PM to October 9 at 01:17 PM1,316 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from October 7 at 01:36 PM to October 8 at 01:17 PM1,180 ha
- orientale (KE)from September 23 at 01:15 PM to October 4 at 12:13 PM912 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from September 30 at 07:47 PM to October 2 at 01:07 AM904 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from September 25 at 01:23 PM to September 27 at 12:03 AM861 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from September 26 at 01:04 PM to September 29 at 01:04 PM837 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from October 12 at 02:55 PM to October 13 at 03:33 PM837 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from October 5 at 03:25 PM to October 6 at 01:53 PM796 ha
- orientale (KE)from September 23 at 01:15 PM to October 4 at 01:10 PM791 ha
- orientale (KE)from September 24 at 12:02 PM to October 3 at 12:34 PM762 ha
- orientale (KE)from September 23 at 12:19 PM to October 2 at 03:10 PM725 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from October 13 at 08:02 PM to October 22 at 01:14 AM681 ha
- orientale (KE)from September 30 at 03:31 PM to October 3 at 01:10 PM665 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from September 26 at 01:04 PM to October 10 at 12:38 PM657 ha
- orientale (KE)from September 24 at 02:59 PM to September 26 at 01:04 PM654 ha
- orientale (KE)from September 23 at 12:19 PM to October 2 at 03:10 PM628 ha
- orientale (KE)from September 24 at 12:38 PM to October 3 at 01:28 PM612 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from September 30 at 03:31 PM to October 2 at 01:07 AM608 ha
- orientale (KE)from September 23 at 01:15 PM to October 4 at 12:13 PM572 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from September 27 at 12:45 PM to September 30 at 02:06 PM547 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from September 25 at 01:21 PM to October 9 at 01:15 PM509 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from September 30 at 03:31 PM to October 10 at 01:42 PM492 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from October 3 at 12:34 PM to October 4 at 02:46 PM476 ha
- Côte (KE)from September 26 at 08:24 PM to September 28 at 08:04 PM458 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from September 24 at 03:01 PM to September 27 at 01:42 PM453 ha
- orientale (KE)from October 19 at 01:30 PM to October 21 at 12:57 AM450 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from October 8 at 12:41 PM to October 16 at 12:50 AM445 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from September 27 at 12:45 PM to October 4 at 01:10 PM445 ha
- Côte (KE)from September 23 at 07:48 AM to September 27 at 12:42 AM437 ha
- orientale (KE)from September 30 at 12:43 PM to October 6 at 01:53 PM424 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from September 25 at 01:23 PM to September 30 at 01:30 PM417 ha
- Vallée du Rift (KE)from October 5 at 12:12 AM to October 5 at 03:23 PM408 ha
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These figures come from satellite thermal detection and are not an official tally: only the emergency services of the country concerned are authoritative. The detected footprint overstates the area actually burnt, a pixel counting whole (375 m for VIIRS, 1 km for MODIS) when only an edge burns. A freshly detected fire may not yet carry a place name and will then not appear in this list, though it is already on the map.
Learn more: what a forest fire is and how satellites detect it
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