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Wildfires in Ankpa

Ankpa, Nigeria, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 2,835 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 Very low 33° · 47 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 60 % · 28 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 73 % · 30 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 61 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 72 % · 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

2,835
hectares burned
2.2 %
of its area
2
fires
1,295
km²

How many times has Ankpa burned?

Ankpa has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Ankpa fire, January 2026, with 2,730 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
2,835
cumulative ha
2 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 Ankpa

  1. 2,730 ha Ankpa fire, January 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,713 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 106 ha Omala fire, January 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 2,078 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).

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