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Wildfires in North 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 9,020 km² of North Eastern at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 831 km², ranking 4th 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 2012, with 4,970 km² detected; the quietest was 2017, with 89 km². The 2021–2025 average is 62% 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.
January, February and March together hold 50% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 February 2012, with detections in 204 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 9,020 km² with at least one detection, 6.6% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 7,410 | 82% |
| 2 years | 1,020 | 11% |
| 3 to 5 years | 556 | 6.2% |
| 6 to 10 years | 36 | 0.4% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -1.75, 40.75 and holds 16% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 4,970 | 4,524 |
| 2013 | 469 | 398 |
| 2014 | 328 | 279 |
| 2015 | 445 | 386 |
| 2016 | 633 | 553 |
| 2017 | 89 | 84 |
| 2018 | 318 | 270 |
| 2019 | 542 | 460 |
| 2020 | 1,240 | 1,078 |
| 2021 | 338 | 327 |
| 2022 | 298 | 263 |
| 2023 | 180 | 157 |
| 2024 | 1,100 | 958 |
| 2025 | 688 | 644 |
Other regions of Kenya
- Rift Valley4,780 km² in an average year
- Coast3,290 km² in an average year
- Eastern2,800 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
- Coast55 km
- Eastern283 km
- Lower Juba, Somalia314 km
- Middle Juba, Somalia355 km
- Kilimanjaro, Tanzania433 km
- Tanga, Tanzania448 km