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Wildfires in Anka

Anka, Nigeria, has had 39 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 103,489 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 40% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 24).

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 High 34° · 26 % · 37 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 34° · 24 % · 27 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 34° · 17 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 34° · 23 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 34° · 29 % · 24 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 35° · 21 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 35° · 21 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 35° · 19 % · 33 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

103,489
hectares burned
40 %
of its area
39
fires
2,597
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Anka

  1. 2,383 ha Bukkuyum fire, 3 January 2026 0.9% of the municipality · 3,581 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 564 ha Talata Mafara fire, 6 December 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 3,105 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 4,219 ha Anka fire, 29 November 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,193 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 8,222 ha Anka fire, 28 November 2025 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 8,176 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 4,359 ha Anka fire, 9 November 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,332 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 2,660 ha Anka fire, December 2024 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,646 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 2,440 ha Anka fire, November 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,478 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 2,650 ha Anka fire, 24 December 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,634 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 1,057 ha Talata Mafara fire, December 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 3,067 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 3,736 ha Anka fire, 9 December 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,750 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 3,804 ha Anka fire, 9 December 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,780 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 484 ha Bakura fire, December 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 2,425 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 3,024 ha Anka fire, December 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,005 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 2,841 ha Anka fire, December 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,824 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 940 ha Anka fire, 27 November 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,105 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 3,311 ha Anka fire, 21 November 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,293 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 1,369 ha Maru fire, 18 November 2021 0.5% of the municipality · 5,682 ha in total · 9 days
  18. 1,932 ha Anka fire, 20 January 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,015 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 5,863 ha Anka fire, 13 January 2021 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 5,829 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 2,444 ha Anka fire, 8 December 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,429 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 171 ha Maru fire, 8 December 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 3,607 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 3,257 ha Anka fire, 6 December 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,239 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 2,086 ha Anka fire, November 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,073 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 1,987 ha Anka fire, January 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,505 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 2,175 ha Anka fire, December 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,161 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 2,169 ha Anka fire, 24 March 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,156 ha in total · 4 days
  27. 3,277 ha Anka fire, 22 March 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,258 ha in total · 4 days
  28. 4,364 ha Anka fire, December 2018 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,680 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 3,360 ha Anka fire, January 2018 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,367 ha in total · 6 days
  30. 28 ha Bukkuyum fire, December 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,192 ha in total · 8 days
  31. 8 ha Maru fire, 6 December 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,026 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 2,021 ha Anka fire, 27 November 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,010 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 2,279 ha Anka fire, 25 November 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,875 ha in total · 6 days
  34. 4,582 ha Anka fire, 25 January 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,556 ha in total · 9 days
  35. 1,591 ha Anka fire, 25 January 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,058 ha in total · 4 days
  36. 2,084 ha Anka fire, 21 December 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,071 ha in total · 6 days
  37. 2,439 ha Anka fire, 10 December 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,424 ha in total · 6 days
  38. 2,982 ha Maru fire, 26 November 2016 1.2% of the municipality · 8,735 ha in total · 9 days
  39. 4,326 ha Anka fire, February 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,301 ha in total · 6 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).