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Wildfires in Apa

Apa, Nigeria, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 17,679 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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 Low 33° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 34° · 50 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 33° · 49 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 33° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 65 % · 40 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 57 % · 29 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 33° · 55 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 32° · 58 % · 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

17,679
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
12
fires
1,075
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Apa

  1. 3,098 ha Omala fire, February 2026 2.9% of the municipality · 13,015 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 6,500 ha Apa fire, January 2026 where it started 6.0% of the municipality · 8,255 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 108 ha Agatu fire, 31 December 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 3,265 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 504 ha Gwer West fire, December 2025 0.5% of the municipality · 13,772 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 755 ha Apa fire, December 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,688 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 85 ha Oturkpo fire, December 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 5,771 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 390 ha Omala fire, 28 January 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 8,126 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 915 ha Apa fire, January 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 12,124 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 674 ha Omala fire, January 2021 0.6% of the municipality · 2,078 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 2,198 ha Apa fire, January 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,184 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 2,450 ha Apa fire, February 2019 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,433 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 2 ha Gwer West fire, 28 December 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,296 ha in total · 9 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).