Bama fire, 28 October 2025 Bama, Konduga
The fire started on 28 October 2025 in Bama, Nigeria, and satellites saw it burning for 15 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,183 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 376th largest in Borno since 2016 (of 463 with a page). Number 271 in Nigeria in 2025, of 320.
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Suggestions: Bama · 2017Bama · 2023Konduga · 2016Konduga · 2023
- Burnt area
- 2,183ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 15days
- 28 Oct 2025 – 11 Nov 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- local government areas
- Started on
- 28 Oct
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 47
- in a single hotspot: 52 MW
- Average daily power
- 53MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
This area had burned before
21% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 40 ha in 2016, 320 ha in 2017, 4 ha in 2020, 24 ha in 2021, 96 ha in 2023.
- 320 ha Bama fire, November 2017 2,527 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 96 ha Bama fire, October 2023 2,177 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 40 ha Konduga fire, November 2016 2,734 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Bama where it started2,128 ha reached on 30 Oct0.5 %
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70 ha reached on 28 Oct0.0 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 2 November 2025 the air beside the fire reached 91 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 52: 3.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Detections table · 47Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 9,591 haKonduga3 November 2023 · 8 days · 18 km away
- 4,370 haBama18 October 2025 · 18 days · 20 km away
- 9,310 haMafa20 October 2023 · 5 days · 27 km away
- 5,040 haKondugaDecember 2016 · 6 days · 28 km away
- 4,812 haBama23 October 2025 · 12 days · 34 km away
- 8,145 haMafa 13 October 2026 · 11 days · 40 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Bama fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 28 October 2025 to 11 November 2025 (15 days). The perimeter dates it from 2 November 2025 to 11 November 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 2,183 hectares (21.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Bama (2,128 ha, 0.5 %); Konduga (70 ha, 0.0 %).
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Nigeria (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
Where to verify it
A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.
Emergency number: 112 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 2 November 2025 to 11 November 2025. 47 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
Where this data comes from
The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.