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Wildfires in Borgu

Borgu, Nigeria, has had 35 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 147,427 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% 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 36° · 21 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 37° · 17 % · 35 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 36° · 17 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 36° · 26 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 36° · 30 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 36° · 22 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 37° · 22 % · 42 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 37° · 23 % · 32 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

147,427
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
35
fires
10,823
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Borgu

  1. 2,429 ha Borgu fire, February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,413 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,229 ha Borgu fire, 21 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,215 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 2,318 ha Borgu fire, 21 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,301 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 39,632 ha Borgu fire, 12 January 2026 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 78,532 ha in total · 52 days
  5. 8,052 ha Borgu fire, 6 January 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 8,007 ha in total · 22 days
  6. 3,676 ha Borgu fire, 2 January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,654 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,104 ha Borgu fire, 24 January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,291 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 5,596 ha Borgu fire, 9 January 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,565 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 2,786 ha Borgu fire, 12 January 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,771 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 2,236 ha Borgu fire, 7 January 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,224 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 2,277 ha Borgu fire, 4 January 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,265 ha in total · 10 days
  12. 4,075 ha Borgu fire, January 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,050 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 1,862 ha Borgu fire, December 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,100 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 2,608 ha Borgu fire, January 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,617 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 2,124 ha Borgu fire, December 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,113 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 2,557 ha Borgu fire, November 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,542 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 2,958 ha Borgu fire, 12 January 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,939 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 2,120 ha Borgu fire, 7 January 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,109 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 2,197 ha Borgu fire, 23 December 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,184 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 2,885 ha Borgu fire, 14 December 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,868 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 3,682 ha Borgu fire, 2 December 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,662 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 2,839 ha Borgu fire, February 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,838 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 4,649 ha Borgu fire, January 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,621 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 6,789 ha Borgu fire, 25 December 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,884 ha in total · 13 days
  25. 2,584 ha Borgu fire, 12 December 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,568 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 2,320 ha Borgu fire, 6 December 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,307 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 2,979 ha Borgu fire, January 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,052 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 3,898 ha Borgu fire, December 2018 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,873 ha in total · 7 days
  29. 2,023 ha Borgu fire, December 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,011 ha in total · 2 days
  30. 2,578 ha Borgu fire, 21 December 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,562 ha in total · 3 days
  31. 3,385 ha Borgu fire, 15 December 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,364 ha in total · 9 days
  32. 3,105 ha Borgu fire, 29 November 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,087 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 25 ha Kaiama fire, November 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,467 ha in total · 4 days
  34. 7,680 ha Borgu fire, 16 November 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 7,637 ha in total · 10 days
  35. 2,170 ha Borgu fire, January 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,159 ha in total · 6 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).