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Wildfires in Akamkpa

Akamkpa, Nigeria, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 18,169 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 12 Very low 30° · 64 % · 25 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Very low 31° · 53 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Very low 31° · 62 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Very low 33° · 48 % · 32 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Very low 32° · 48 % · 22 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Very low 33° · 44 % · 25 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Very low 34° · 41 % · 25 km/h
  8. Thu 19 Very low 33° · 52 % · 20 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Akamkpa: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

18,169
hectares burned
3.9 %
of its area
7
fires
4,616
km²

How many times has Akamkpa burned?

Akamkpa has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Akamkpa fire, 24 February 2026, with 3,126 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 3× 26
7
fires
5
years with fire
18,169
cumulative ha
24 Feb 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 Akamkpa

  1. 3,126 ha Akamkpa fire, 24 February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,106 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 4,660 ha Akamkpa fire, 20 February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,628 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 2,824 ha Akamkpa fire, 19 February 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,805 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 2,085 ha Akamkpa fire, February 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,072 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 1,303 ha Akamkpa fire, February 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,217 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 2,138 ha Akamkpa fire, February 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,124 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 2,034 ha Akamkpa fire, February 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,021 ha in total · 20 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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