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Kisumu County

Next 7 daysModerate30%
Annual mean
0detections
Peak period
mid December – early March
Record year
2003422
Trend
−10%/ 10not significant · on raw data: +87%

Fire clock

Ring = year, slice = week. Click a ring to focus that year.

Total detections per year
YearTotal
2001170
2002223
2003422
2004260
2005219
2006239
2007214
2008258
2009183
2010189
2011251
2012203
2013192
2014180
2015383
2016235
2017251
2018175
2019113
2020120
2021142
2022227
2023191
2024214
2025221
2026186

Next 7 days

Moderate

Full risk view

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Moderate

Expected detections: ~2.7

  • An active part of the fire season↑
  • Fires detected in recent days↑
  • This year is more active than normal↑
Sat27°
Sun28°
Mon29°
Tue30°
Wed30°
Thu32°
Fri31°

Right now

late October

This week2.0

This week is more active than 26% of past years at this time

Year to date186
#11 of 26 yearsNormal: 183

Season

late June – early March

Onset
late June
Peak
mid February
End
early March

Two-peak season: spring and summer–autumn

Critical windows

  • mid December – early March

    45% of annual activity

The normal year vs 2026

Bands show the 25-year range; the white line is this year so far.

25-year history

The raw record jumps in 2012 when VIIRS arrives; the harmonized record does not.

Harmonized: −10%/10Raw: +87%/10
HarmonizedNaive merged record90% uncertainty

Unusual years

9

  • 2003

    422

    2.0× the normal annual activity

    peak 3.6× stronger than normal

  • 2011

    251

    season ended 4 weeks late

  • 2012

    203

    season began 6 weeks late

  • 2015

    383

    1.8× the normal annual activity

  • 2019

    113

    only 0.5× the normal annual activity

    season began 9 weeks late

    season ended 3 weeks late

  • 2020

    120

    only 0.6× the normal annual activity

    season ended 3 weeks early

  • 2022

    227

    season ended 3 weeks late

  • 2025

    221

    season began 7 weeks late

  • 2026

    186

    season ended 3 weeks early

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One fire history for the Land of Fire.

Built for the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2026.

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Data sources

NASA FIRMS, NASA POWER, Open-Meteo, OpenStreetMap, geoBoundaries, OpenFreeMap

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