Wildfires in Atisbo
Atisbo, Nigeria, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 13,893 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.6% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).
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- Fri 23 Low 34° · 40 % · 22 km/h
- Sat 24 Low 33° · 46 % · 19 km/h
- Sun 25 Low 33° · 40 % · 18 km/h
- Mon 26 Low 32° · 47 % · 23 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 32° · 56 % · 40 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 33° · 48 % · 36 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 34° · 47 % · 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
- 13,893
- hectares burned
- 5.6 %
- of its area
- 7
- fires
- 2,476
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Atisbo
- 2,130 ha Atisbo fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,116 ha in total · 5 days
- 1,680 ha Atisbo fire, 23 January 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,050 ha in total · 5 days
- 1,066 ha Iseyin fire, January 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 5,789 ha in total · 10 days
- 2,967 ha Olorunsogo fire, 20 January 2026 1.2% of the municipality · 8,894 ha in total · 8 days
- 1,993 ha Ori Ire fire, January 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 7,256 ha in total · 9 days
- 1,535 ha Atisbo fire, 17 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,562 ha in total · 11 days
- 2,522 ha Atisbo fire, December 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,506 ha in total · 5 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).