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Wildfires in Nyanza
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 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 4,000 km² of Nyanza at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 639 km², ranking 5th 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 2015, with 975 km² detected; the quietest was 2020, with 377 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of 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 55% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 14 March 2015, with detections in 81 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 4,000 km² with at least one detection, 29% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,010 | 50% |
| 2 years | 841 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 871 | 22% |
| 6 to 10 years | 259 | 6.5% |
| 11 years or more | 11 | 0.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -0.75, 34.25 and holds 25% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 565 | 617 |
| 2013 | 544 | 727 |
| 2014 | 617 | 701 |
| 2015 | 975 | 1,091 |
| 2016 | 781 | 856 |
| 2017 | 597 | 698 |
| 2018 | 574 | 625 |
| 2019 | 470 | 467 |
| 2020 | 377 | 355 |
| 2021 | 551 | 545 |
| 2022 | 605 | 618 |
| 2023 | 818 | 946 |
| 2024 | 615 | 567 |
| 2025 | 860 | 851 |
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
- North Eastern831 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
- Western111 km
- Buikwe, Uganda157 km
- Rift Valley175 km
- Mara, Tanzania175 km
- Tororo, Uganda175 km
- Mukono, Uganda200 km