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Wildfires in Chikun

Chikun, Nigeria, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 38,146 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.5% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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° · 28 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 32° · 29 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 32° · 24 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 31° · 42 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 40 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 32° · 25 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 33° · 23 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 33° · 27 % · 29 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

38,146
hectares burned
8.5 %
of its area
17
fires
4,493
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Chikun

  1. 822 ha Kachia fire, January 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,312 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 993 ha Birnin Gwari fire, 6 January 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,759 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 5,303 ha Chikun fire, 31 December 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,274 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 2,019 ha Chikun fire, 20 December 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,009 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 818 ha Shiroro fire, 16 December 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 2,124 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 613 ha Birnin Gwari fire, 7 December 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,517 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,908 ha Chikun fire, November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,890 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 3,941 ha Chikun fire, 24 December 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,916 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 2,189 ha Chikun fire, 12 December 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,175 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 2,311 ha Chikun fire, 9 December 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,298 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 2,800 ha Chikun fire, December 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,782 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 2,163 ha Chikun fire, 28 December 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,149 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 2,767 ha Chikun fire, 22 December 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,210 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 3,598 ha Chikun fire, 16 December 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,717 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 4,122 ha Chikun fire, 12 December 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,101 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 383 ha Kachia fire, February 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 2,385 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 393 ha Giwa fire, January 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 2,311 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).