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Wildfires in Chibok

Chibok, Nigeria, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 5,625 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.4% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

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 Moderate 33° · 32 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 32° · 31 % · 21 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 32° · 30 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 33° · 26 % · 16 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 33° · 28 % · 18 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 33° · 27 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 33° · 28 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 33° · 27 % · 34 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

5,625
hectares burned
4.4 %
of its area
2
fires
1,273
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Chibok

  1. 1,325 ha Damboa fire, 28 November 2019 1.0% of the municipality · 6,680 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 4,299 ha Damboa fire, 31 October 2017 3.4% of the municipality · 19,968 ha in total · 13 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).