Wildfires in Awe
Awe, Nigeria, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 11,609 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.5% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).
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 35° · 44 % · 25 km/h
- Sat 24 Low 34° · 43 % · 26 km/h
- Sun 25 Low 34° · 45 % · 20 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 34° · 49 % · 27 km/h
- Tue 27 Low 31° · 59 % · 27 km/h
- Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 43 % · 30 km/h
- Thu 29 Moderate 36° · 28 % · 27 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 35° · 43 % · 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
- 11,609
- hectares burned
- 4.5 %
- of its area
- 5
- fires
- 2,591
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Awe
- 2,266 ha Awe fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,252 ha in total · 3 days
- 2,267 ha Awe fire, 3 January 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,253 ha in total · 12 days
- 2,287 ha Awe fire, January 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,273 ha in total · 6 days
- 2,355 ha Awe fire, January 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,341 ha in total · 11 days
- 2,433 ha Awe fire, January 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,418 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).