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Wildfires in Eastern
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 20,260 km² of Eastern at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 2,800 km², ranking 3rd of 8 regions of Kenya.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2020, with 4,800 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 1,430 km². The 2021–2025 average is 5.6% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
August, September and October together hold 68% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 September 2020, with detections in 220 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 20,260 km² with at least one detection, 22% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 12,330 | 61% |
| 2 years | 3,400 | 17% |
| 3 to 5 years | 3,600 | 18% |
| 6 to 10 years | 903 | 4.5% |
| 11 years or more | 32 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -1.25, 38.25 and holds 14% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4,530 | 4,426 |
| 2013 | 3,270 | 3,207 |
| 2014 | 2,340 | 2,463 |
| 2015 | 2,450 | 2,539 |
| 2016 | 2,350 | 2,385 |
| 2017 | 1,750 | 1,847 |
| 2018 | 1,430 | 1,371 |
| 2019 | 2,190 | 2,250 |
| 2020 | 4,800 | 4,646 |
| 2021 | 2,250 | 2,312 |
| 2022 | 1,760 | 1,738 |
| 2023 | 1,900 | 1,891 |
| 2024 | 3,870 | 3,814 |
| 2025 | 4,320 | 4,455 |
Other regions of Kenya
- Rift Valley4,780 km² in an average year
- Coast3,290 km² in an average year
- North Eastern831 km² in an average year
- Nyanza639 km² in an average year
- Central335 km² in an average year
- Western310 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Central200 km
- North Eastern283 km
- Coast299 km
- Rift Valley299 km
- Arusha, Tanzania324 km
- Kilimanjaro, Tanzania338 km