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Wildfires in Askira Uba

Askira Uba, Nigeria, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 12,873 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.8% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 28).

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 31 High 35° · 29 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 1 High 36° · 32 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 2 High 35° · 20 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 3 High 35° · 20 % · 24 km/h
  5. Wed 4 High 36° · 20 % · 22 km/h
  6. Thu 5 High 35° · 20 % · 23 km/h
  7. Fri 6 High 35° · 20 % · 20 km/h
  8. Sat 7 High 35° · 19 % · 18 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

12,873
hectares burned
4.8 %
of its area
5
fires
2,703
km²

How many times has Askira Uba burned?

Askira Uba has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2017, 2020, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Askira Uba fire, December 2025, with 2,782 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,873 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,326 hectares, 3.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
12,873
cumulative ha
9,326
distinct ha

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 Askira Uba

  1. 2,782 ha Askira Uba fire, December 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,763 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,807 ha Askira Uba fire, November 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,465 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,803 ha Damboa fire, November 2024 0.7% of the municipality · 2,258 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 1,009 ha Damboa fire, January 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 6,085 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 5,472 ha Damboa fire, 24 October 2017 2.0% of the municipality · 19,968 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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