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Wildfires in Abadam

Abadam, Nigeria, has had 29 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 176,693 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 44% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 58).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 1 Extreme 40° · 9 % · 31 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Extreme 40° · 8 % · 32 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Extreme 40° · 7 % · 32 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Extreme 40° · 7 % · 32 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very extreme 40° · 8 % · 43 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Extreme 39° · 8 % · 40 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Extreme 38° · 9 % · 38 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Extreme 39° · 10 % · 38 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

176,693
hectares burned
44 %
of its area
29
fires
4,014
km²

How many times has Abadam burned?

Abadam has burned 29 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kukawa fire, 13 October 2026, with 1,127 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 176,693 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 104,347 hectares, 26 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 6× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 5× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 1× 26
29
fires
8
years with fire
176,693
cumulative ha
104,347
distinct ha

Fires larger than 2,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Nigeria →

Fires that entered Abadam

  1. 1,127 ha Kukawa fire, 13 October 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 8,109 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 2,521 ha Abadam fire, November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,505 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 2,305 ha Abadam fire, 29 October 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,290 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 8,070 ha Abadam fire, 23 October 2025 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 10,948 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 3,664 ha Abadam fire, 13 October 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,640 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 2,146 ha Abadam fire, 13 October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,133 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,034 ha Abadam fire, 25 October 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,021 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 3,284 ha Abadam fire, 24 October 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,350 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 192 ha Kukawa fire, 20 October 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,075 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 2,376 ha Abadam fire, 18 October 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,361 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 4,484 ha Abadam fire, 15 October 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,454 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 2,661 ha Abadam fire, 24 October 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,645 ha in total · 3 days
  13. 29,318 ha Abadam fire, 1 October 2021 where it started 7.3% of the municipality · 43,877 ha in total · 44 days
  14. 3,517 ha Abadam fire, 23 October 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,494 ha in total · 21 days
  15. 15,008 ha Abadam fire, 21 October 2019 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 27,753 ha in total · 21 days
  16. 1,423 ha Kukawa fire, 23 October 2018 0.4% of the municipality · 2,972 ha in total · 17 days
  17. 2,928 ha Abadam fire, 21 October 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,907 ha in total · 20 days
  18. 2,087 ha Abadam fire, 17 October 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,076 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 18,523 ha Kukawa fire, 7 October 2018 4.6% of the municipality · 32,284 ha in total · 26 days
  20. 1,770 ha Kukawa fire, 6 October 2018 0.4% of the municipality · 12,874 ha in total · 28 days
  21. 2,375 ha Kukawa fire, November 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 3,205 ha in total · 20 days
  22. 3,693 ha Kukawa fire, 9 October 2017 0.9% of the municipality · 4,178 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 26,980 ha Abadam fire, October 2017 where it started 6.7% of the municipality · 39,930 ha in total · 41 days
  24. 2,940 ha Abadam fire, 12 November 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,557 ha in total · 11 days
  25. 2,142 ha Abadam fire, 2 November 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,128 ha in total · 10 days
  26. 23,462 ha Abadam fire, October 2016 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 31,926 ha in total · 48 days
  27. 216 ha Kukawa fire, 30 September 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 5,365 ha in total · 15 days
  28. 2,323 ha Abadam fire, March 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,306 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 3,122 ha Abadam fire, February 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,101 ha in total · 11 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/GRID3 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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