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Wildfires in Bukkuyum

Bukkuyum, Nigeria, has had 46 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 115,199 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 31% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 31).

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. Tue 3 High 37° · 21 % · 27 km/h
  2. Wed 4 High 35° · 22 % · 23 km/h
  3. Thu 5 High 35° · 22 % · 25 km/h
  4. Fri 6 High 35° · 22 % · 19 km/h
  5. Sat 7 High 36° · 21 % · 22 km/h
  6. Sun 8 High 36° · 19 % · 23 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very high 36° · 17 % · 41 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very high 36° · 20 % · 40 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

115,199
hectares burned
31 %
of its area
46
fires
3,774
km²

How many times has Bukkuyum burned?

Bukkuyum has burned 46 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Bukkuyum fire, November 2026, with 2,042 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 115,199 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 82,328 hectares, 22 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 6× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 11× 25
  11. 11× 26
46
fires
9
years with fire
115,199
cumulative ha
82,328
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 Bukkuyum

  1. 2,042 ha Bukkuyum fire, November 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,031 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,265 ha Bukkuyum fire, 30 October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,249 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 3,475 ha Bukkuyum fire, 29 October 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,456 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,629 ha Bukkuyum fire, 28 October 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,611 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 14 ha Wasagu-Danko fire, 28 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,855 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 3,036 ha Bukkuyum fire, 27 October 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,056 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 7,443 ha Gummi fire, October 2026 2.0% of the municipality · 11,116 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 3,401 ha Bukkuyum fire, 17 October 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,383 ha in total · 18 days
  9. 3,232 ha Bukkuyum fire, 17 October 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,215 ha in total · 16 days
  10. 1,218 ha Bukkuyum fire, 3 January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,581 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 4,792 ha Bukkuyum fire, 1 January 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 4,766 ha in total · 16 days
  12. 5,257 ha Bukkuyum fire, 22 December 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,226 ha in total · 22 days
  13. 2,127 ha Bukkuyum fire, 20 December 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,113 ha in total · 19 days
  14. 8,379 ha Bukkuyum fire, 20 December 2025 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 8,326 ha in total · 26 days
  15. 228 ha Gummi fire, 24 November 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 5,286 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 2,546 ha Bukkuyum fire, 24 November 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,528 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 3,455 ha Bukkuyum fire, 24 November 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,196 ha in total · 10 days
  18. 2,621 ha Tureta fire, 22 November 2025 0.7% of the municipality · 5,724 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 2,734 ha Bukkuyum fire, 10 November 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,718 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 27 ha Wasagu-Danko fire, 9 November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,377 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 1,188 ha Gummi fire, 4 November 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 4,593 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 6,665 ha Bukkuyum fire, October 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 6,630 ha in total · 15 days
  23. 785 ha Tureta fire, 4 December 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 2,281 ha in total · 9 days
  24. 1,896 ha Bukkuyum fire, November 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,063 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 3,371 ha Bukkuyum fire, 17 December 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,349 ha in total · 12 days
  26. 5,153 ha Bukkuyum fire, 8 December 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,121 ha in total · 20 days
  27. 667 ha Gummi fire, December 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 2,500 ha in total · 9 days
  28. 2,426 ha Bukkuyum fire, November 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,668 ha in total · 18 days
  29. 127 ha Tureta fire, November 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,336 ha in total · 9 days
  30. 2,149 ha Bukkuyum fire, 21 December 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,135 ha in total · 3 days
  31. 2,699 ha Bukkuyum fire, 12 December 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,683 ha in total · 11 days
  32. 2,830 ha Bukkuyum fire, 4 December 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,917 ha in total · 4 days
  33. 91 ha Gummi fire, December 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 12,887 ha in total · 9 days
  34. 2,171 ha Bukkuyum fire, 19 November 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,160 ha in total · 9 days
  35. 2,095 ha Bukkuyum fire, 12 November 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,084 ha in total · 4 days
  36. 2,076 ha Bukkuyum fire, 22 December 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,066 ha in total · 5 days
  37. 2,034 ha Bukkuyum fire, 15 December 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,022 ha in total · 3 days
  38. 1,412 ha Gummi fire, 1 December 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 16,638 ha in total · 13 days
  39. 1,176 ha Anka fire, 20 November 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 2,105 ha in total · 13 days
  40. 2,622 ha Bukkuyum fire, 16 December 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,609 ha in total · 17 days
  41. 1,106 ha Gummi fire, December 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 3,596 ha in total · 13 days
  42. 2,206 ha Bukkuyum fire, 12 December 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,194 ha in total · 2 days
  43. 532 ha Anka fire, January 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 2,505 ha in total · 7 days
  44. 3,702 ha Gummi fire, 19 January 2020 1.0% of the municipality · 13,736 ha in total · 22 days
  45. 2,175 ha Bukkuyum fire, December 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,192 ha in total · 10 days
  46. 923 ha Gummi fire, December 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 3,959 ha in total · 12 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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