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Wildfires in Western
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 2,530 km² of Western at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 310 km², ranking 7th 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 656 km² detected; the quietest was 2020, with 83 km². The 2021–2025 average is 43% 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 72% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 16 March 2015, with detections in 45 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 2,530 km² with at least one detection, 16% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,650 | 65% |
| 2 years | 465 | 18% |
| 3 to 5 years | 326 | 13% |
| 6 to 10 years | 79 | 3.1% |
| 11 years or more | 2.4 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 0.25, 34.25 and holds 28% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 507 | 495 |
| 2013 | 234 | 199 |
| 2014 | 307 | 286 |
| 2015 | 656 | 666 |
| 2016 | 420 | 385 |
| 2017 | 363 | 331 |
| 2018 | 239 | 223 |
| 2019 | 307 | 302 |
| 2020 | 83 | 71 |
| 2021 | 204 | 194 |
| 2022 | 259 | 237 |
| 2023 | 306 | 336 |
| 2024 | 150 | 123 |
| 2025 | 301 | 294 |
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
- Nyanza639 km² in an average year
- Central335 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
- Tororo, Uganda78 km
- Buikwe, Uganda111 km
- Bulambuli, Uganda111 km
- Bukedea, Uganda111 km
- Nyanza111 km
- Kamuli, Uganda124 km