Idanre fire, December 2024 Idanre, Ovia South-West
The fire started on 17 December 2024 in Idanre, Nigeria, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,520 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 9th largest in Ondo since 2016 (of 23 with a page). Number 12 in Nigeria in 2024, of 118.
- Burnt area
- 5,520ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 7days
- 17 Dec 2024 – 23 Dec 2024
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- local government areas
- Started on
- 17 Dec
- 2024
- Heat detections
- 227
- in a single hotspot: 71 MW
- Danger at start
- 29
- High · FWI index
- Energy released
- 2.0GW
- sum of detected power
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.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 32 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 6,346 ha in 2016, 1,844 ha in 2018, 1,881 ha in 2019, 6,215 ha in 2020, 387 ha in 2021, 6,918 ha in 2022, 2,886 ha in 2023. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 5,556 ha that had burned before.
- 5,757 ha Owo fire, January 2020 20,771 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 5,320 ha Idanre fire, January 2022 15,831 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 3,716 ha Idanre fire, February 2016 6,345 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,847 ha Idanre fire, February 2023 8,772 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,630 ha Idanre fire, January 2016 28,739 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,881 ha Idanre fire, February 2019 11,751 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,557 ha Idanre fire, January 2018 3,218 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 387 ha Idanre fire, January 2021 2,969 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Idanre where it started5,478 ha reached on 15 Dec2.8 %
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78 ha0.0 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
The weather day by day
ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Dec | 35.0 °C | 27 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 18 Dec | 35.3 °C | 22 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 19 Dec | 34.1 °C | 19 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 20 Dec | 34.6 °C | 21 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 21 Dec | 34.4 °C | 22 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 22 Dec | 34.5 °C | 24 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 23 Dec | 34.8 °C | 25 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 24 Dec after | 35.1 °C | 30 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 25 Dec after | 35.6 °C | 29 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 26 Dec after | 35.4 °C | 25 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 27 Dec after | 36.5 °C | 25 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 28 Dec after | 34.4 °C | 33 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 29 Dec after | 36.1 °C | 25 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 30 Dec after | 35.5 °C | 25 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 31 Dec after | 36.0 °C | 28 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 1 Jan after | 35.4 °C | 34 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 2 Jan after | 35.9 °C | 33 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
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 21 December 2024 the air beside the fire reached 208 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 128: 8.6 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 · 227Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 6,345 haIdanreFebruary 2016 · 6 days · 1 km away
- 15,831 haIdanre16 January 2022 · 18 days · 4 km away
- 20,771 haOwo18 January 2020 · 29 days · 5 km away
- 28,739 haIdanre20 January 2016 · 15 days · 6 km away
- 11,751 haIdanreFebruary 2019 · 12 days · 6 km away
- 8,772 haIdanre14 February 2023 · 8 days · 6 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Idanre fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 17 December 2024 and 23 December 2024: 7 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 5,520 hectares (55.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Idanre (5,478 ha, 2.8 %); Ovia South-West (78 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 35.3 °C, humidity dropped to 19 % and gusts hit 32 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 36, class High.
- 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
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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.