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🇰🇪 Kenya: wildfires in August 2026

Unit: archived detection events, grouped by first-detection day and a roughly 11 km cell. One physical fire can span multiple records; hotspots can also be agricultural, industrial or urban. These counts are not a census of confirmed wildfires. The archive starts on August 3, 2026; the current month is incomplete.

Kenya, August 2026: 85 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 6 October at 04:01.

Busiest day: 19 August, with 12 ignitions detected.

85
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
490
peak power (MW)
"In August 2026, kanari archived 85 detection events in Kenya, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 490 MW."
Source: kanari.io, NASA FIRMS, GOES and Meteosat MTG satellites plus AI-verified witness reports. Freely citable (CC BY 4.0).

Fire ignitions per day

042026-08-04: 2052026-08-05: 4072026-08-07: 2082026-08-08: 1092026-08-09: 2102026-08-10: 5132026-08-13: 2142026-08-14: 4152026-08-15: 1162026-08-16: 8172026-08-17: 4182026-08-18: 4192026-08-19: 12202026-08-20: 5212026-08-21: 2222026-08-22: 4242026-08-24: 6252026-08-25: 1262026-08-26: 3272026-08-27: 1282026-08-28: 4292026-08-29: 2302026-08-30: 2312026-08-31: 4

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Rumuruti21 Aug, 11:3061490
Baragoi17 Aug, 07:218183
Baragoi18 Aug, 07:518173
Baragoi26 Aug, 07:518166
Baragoi16 Aug, 07:216154
Baragoi26 Aug, 06:368140
Loiyangalani30 Aug, 12:158138
Baragoi4 Aug, 07:362134
Baragoi5 Aug, 07:212129
Baragoi5 Aug, 07:361120

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, Kenya, August 2026: 85 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-06.

Methodology: only significant fires are archived (corroborated by witnesses, or above detection and power thresholds); totals are not comparable to exhaustive official tallies. Full methodology and licence.

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