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Wildfires in Biu

Biu, Nigeria, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,221 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.4% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 25).

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 24 High 32° · 28 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 31° · 27 % · 33 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 32° · 25 % · 21 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 30 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 32° · 25 % · 30 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 32° · 26 % · 52 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 32° · 24 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 33° · 22 % · 23 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

1,221
hectares burned
0.4 %
of its area
3
fires
3,185
km²

How many times has Biu burned?

Biu has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2019. The most recent: Damboa fire, January 2019, with 305 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,221 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,097 hectares, 0.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
1,221
cumulative ha
1,097
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 Biu

  1. 305 ha Damboa fire, January 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 2,440 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 82 ha Damboa fire, 2 November 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,312 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 833 ha Damboa fire, 2 November 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 4,143 ha in total · 7 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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