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Wildfires in Agatu

Agatu, Nigeria, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 45,749 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 43% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Thu 22 Low 34° · 49 % · 22 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Low 34° · 46 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Low 34° · 49 % · 19 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Low 34° · 48 % · 20 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 34° · 49 % · 24 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 60 % · 43 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 34° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Low 35° · 44 % · 28 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

45,749
hectares burned
43 %
of its area
19
fires
1,072
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Agatu

  1. 4,193 ha Omala fire, February 2026 3.9% of the municipality · 13,015 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 1,353 ha Agatu fire, January 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,131 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 695 ha Doma fire, 3 January 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 2,704 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 3,178 ha Agatu fire, 31 December 2025 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 3,265 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 3,964 ha Agatu fire, 14 December 2025 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 3,938 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,147 ha Omala fire, January 2025 1.1% of the municipality · 3,061 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 1,173 ha Agatu fire, December 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,151 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 4,580 ha Omala fire, 28 January 2024 4.3% of the municipality · 8,126 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 1,313 ha Gwer West fire, December 2023 1.2% of the municipality · 2,460 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 2,669 ha Agatu fire, December 2023 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 3,551 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 2,152 ha Agatu fire, February 2023 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,138 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 6,656 ha Apa fire, January 2022 6.2% of the municipality · 12,124 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 4,118 ha Agatu fire, 31 January 2021 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 5,806 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 2 ha Gwer West fire, 16 January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,077 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 1,603 ha Agatu fire, 16 January 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,034 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 2,418 ha Omala fire, February 2020 2.2% of the municipality · 2,481 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 1,343 ha Omala fire, February 2019 1.2% of the municipality · 4,801 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 915 ha Omala fire, January 2018 0.8% of the municipality · 3,539 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 2,277 ha Agatu fire, January 2018 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,310 ha in total · 5 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).