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Wildfires in Ado

Ado, Nigeria, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,166 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Fri 23 Very low 32° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 33° · 54 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 33° · 55 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 60 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 65 % · 38 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 59 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 54 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 62 % · 27 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

1,166
hectares burned
1.2 %
of its area
5
fires
999
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Ado

  1. 455 ha Okpokwu fire, December 2022 0.5% of the municipality · 3,519 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 273 ha Isi-Uzo fire, January 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 4,062 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 26 ha Oturkpo fire, January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,055 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 278 ha Okpokwu fire, January 2018 0.3% of the municipality · 2,061 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 134 ha Okpokwu fire, December 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,336 ha in total · 13 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).