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Wildfires in Abaji

Abaji, Nigeria, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2026: 663 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.7% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Sat 24 Low 34° · 49 % · 17 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 34° · 52 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 67 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 64 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 60 % · 14 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 33° · 53 % · 19 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 31° · 63 % · 17 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

663
hectares burned
0.7 %
of its area
1
fires
955
km²

How many times has Abaji burned?

Abaji has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Lapai fire, January 2026, with 663 hectares inside the municipality.

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  11. 1× 26
1
fires
1
years with fire
663
cumulative ha
19 Jan 2026
most recent

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 Abaji

  1. 663 ha Lapai fire, January 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 7,360 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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