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Wildfires in Ayamelum

Ayamelum, Nigeria, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 12,181 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Sun 25 Very low 33° · 55 % · 24 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 71 % · 32 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 66 % · 19 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 59 % · 30 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 64 % · 33 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 61 % · 22 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

12,181
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
5
fires
553
km²

How many times has Ayamelum burned?

Ayamelum has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2022 and 2024. The most recent: Ayamelum fire, January 2024, with 2,942 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,181 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 8,215 hectares, 15 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
12,181
cumulative ha
8,215
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 Ayamelum

  1. 2,942 ha Ayamelum fire, January 2024 where it started 5.3% of the municipality · 2,923 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,203 ha Ayamelum fire, January 2022 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 2,189 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,963 ha Ayamelum fire, February 2017 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 2,943 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 1,946 ha Uzo-Uwani fire, January 2017 3.5% of the municipality · 2,105 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 2,126 ha Ayamelum fire, February 2016 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 2,112 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).

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