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Wildfires in Bama

Bama, Nigeria, has had 28 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 70,716 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 29).

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 High 35° · 23 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 32° · 26 % · 15 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 33° · 21 % · 15 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 34° · 19 % · 16 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 35° · 19 % · 18 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 36° · 16 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 36° · 19 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 19 % · 31 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

70,716
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
28
fires
3,927
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Bama

  1. 2,110 ha Bama fire, January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,099 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,024 ha Bama fire, December 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,012 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 4,340 ha Bama fire, 12 November 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,315 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,077 ha Bama fire, 10 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,063 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 5,224 ha Bama fire, 5 November 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 5,930 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 2,128 ha Bama fire, 2 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,183 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 2,122 ha Bama fire, 1 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,716 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 383 ha Mafa fire, 1 November 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,001 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 2,560 ha Bama fire, 31 October 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,546 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 3,761 ha Bama fire, 31 October 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,737 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 3,015 ha Bama fire, 30 October 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,161 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 4,844 ha Bama fire, 30 October 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,812 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 3,048 ha Bama fire, 28 October 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,028 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 4,399 ha Bama fire, 25 October 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,370 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 6,593 ha Bama fire, 25 October 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 6,552 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 2,508 ha Bama fire, 23 October 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,494 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 90 ha Gwoza fire, 14 November 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,788 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 366 ha Konduga fire, 5 November 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 9,591 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 2,183 ha Bama fire, 22 October 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,177 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 3,008 ha Bama fire, 20 October 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,020 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 545 ha Dikwa fire, 20 October 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 3,098 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 2,832 ha Bama fire, 18 October 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,817 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 3,092 ha Bama fire, 18 October 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,071 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 6 ha Gwoza fire, October 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,339 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 2,502 ha Bama fire, October 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,487 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 2,543 ha Bama fire, November 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,527 ha in total · 3 days
  27. 2,330 ha Bama fire, December 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,316 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 84 ha Konduga fire, 27 November 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,734 ha in total · 4 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).