ODLAR
  • Explore
  • Regions
  • Risk
  • Harmonization
  • Methodology
  • Data
Simple mode
RegionsKenya

Samburu

Next 7 daysVery high73%
Annual mean
0detections
Peak period
mid January – late March
Record year
2025635
Trend
+2%/ 10not significant · on raw data: +88%

Fire clock

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

Total detections per year
YearTotal
2001217
2002347
2003422
2004168
2005381
2006181
2007153
2008342
2009421
2010119
2011410
2012404
2013535
2014192
2015367
201688
2017588
201873
2019414
202062
2021253
2022436
2023246
202487
2025635
2026420

Next 7 days

Very high

Full risk view

0%

Very high

Expected detections: ~5.6

  • Fires detected in recent days↑
  • An active part of the fire season↑
  • This year is more active than normal↑
Sat31°
Sun32°
Mon32°
Tue33°
Wed33°
Thu33°
Fri33°

Right now

late October

This week0.0

This week is more active than 10% of past years at this time

Year to date420
#5 of 26 yearsNormal: 313

Season

early September – late March

Onset
early September
Peak
early March
End
late March

Critical windows

  • mid January – late March

    57% of annual activity

  • mid September – early October

    9% 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: +2%/10Raw: +88%/10
HarmonizedNaive merged record90% uncertainty

Unusual years

8

  • 2004

    168

    season began 10 weeks early

  • 2011

    409

    season began 14 weeks late

  • 2016

    88

    only 0.3× the normal annual activity

  • 2018

    73

    only 0.2× the normal annual activity

  • 2019

    414

    season began 19 weeks late

  • 2020

    62

    only 0.2× the normal annual activity

    season began 10 weeks early

  • 2023

    246

    season began 15 weeks late

  • 2024

    87

    only 0.3× the normal annual activity

Export dataweekly.csvannual.csvhotspots.geojson
ODLAR

One fire history for the Land of Fire.

Built for the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2026.

ExploreRegionsRiskHarmonizationMethodologyDataSimple mode

Data sources

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

ODLAR is not an official warning service. In an emergency call 112.