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Wildfires in Damboa

Damboa, Nigeria, has had 60 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 136,263 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 24).

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 33° · 27 % · 31 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 32° · 25 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 33° · 23 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 34° · 22 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 34° · 23 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 34° · 20 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 34° · 23 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 34° · 23 % · 36 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

136,263
hectares burned
28 %
of its area
60
fires
4,831
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Damboa

  1. 2,159 ha Damboa fire, January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,144 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 594 ha Konduga fire, 26 December 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 3,161 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 613 ha Damboa fire, December 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,591 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 63 ha Gwoza fire, 28 November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,087 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 4,249 ha Damboa fire, 27 November 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,975 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 4,598 ha Damboa fire, 18 November 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,876 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 2,827 ha Damboa fire, 15 November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,810 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 3,897 ha Damboa fire, 15 November 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,872 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 675 ha Askira Uba fire, November 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,465 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 2,394 ha Damboa fire, 5 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,380 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 470 ha Damboa fire, November 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,258 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 722 ha Konduga fire, 7 November 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 2,157 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 1,669 ha Damboa fire, February 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,610 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 1,822 ha Damboa fire, January 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,779 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 2,380 ha Damboa fire, 25 December 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,371 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 2,513 ha Damboa fire, 16 December 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,497 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 2,107 ha Damboa fire, 24 November 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,095 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 3,092 ha Damboa fire, 18 November 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,285 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 482 ha Damboa fire, 18 November 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,023 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 9 ha Konduga fire, 12 November 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,075 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 1,503 ha Damboa fire, February 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,324 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 5,112 ha Damboa fire, January 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,085 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 2,081 ha Damboa fire, 23 December 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,068 ha in total · 5 days
  24. 2,688 ha Damboa fire, 22 December 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,672 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 3,632 ha Damboa fire, 1 December 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 12,660 ha in total · 10 days
  26. 2,815 ha Damboa fire, 29 November 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,798 ha in total · 3 days
  27. 2,226 ha Damboa fire, 29 November 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,211 ha in total · 1 day
  28. 5,395 ha Damboa fire, 28 November 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 6,680 ha in total · 9 days
  29. 2,339 ha Damboa fire, 28 November 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,323 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 2,580 ha Damboa fire, 27 November 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,819 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 4,400 ha Damboa fire, 23 November 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,372 ha in total · 4 days
  32. 0 ha Gwoza fire, 23 November 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,853 ha in total · 2 days
  33. 354 ha Konduga fire, February 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 3,087 ha in total · 1 day
  34. 2,150 ha Damboa fire, January 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,440 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 9,772 ha Damboa fire, 31 October 2017 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 19,968 ha in total · 13 days
  36. 1,684 ha Damboa fire, 30 October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,409 ha in total · 3 days
  37. 2,976 ha Damboa fire, 28 October 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,956 ha in total · 3 days
  38. 3,493 ha Damboa fire, 22 October 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,471 ha in total · 5 days
  39. 169 ha Gwoza fire, 21 October 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,056 ha in total · 4 days
  40. 2,169 ha Damboa fire, 20 October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,155 ha in total · 3 days
  41. 3,215 ha Damboa fire, 20 October 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,196 ha in total · 3 days
  42. 176 ha Kaga fire, 15 October 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,241 ha in total · 1 day
  43. 1,929 ha Damboa fire, 15 October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,969 ha in total · 6 days
  44. 2,603 ha Damboa fire, December 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,586 ha in total · 5 days
  45. 2,613 ha Damboa fire, 30 November 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,595 ha in total · 4 days
  46. 512 ha Kaga fire, 27 November 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,382 ha in total · 3 days
  47. 2,398 ha Damboa fire, 24 November 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,383 ha in total · 3 days
  48. 2,693 ha Damboa fire, 5 November 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,674 ha in total · 2 days
  49. 5,834 ha Damboa fire, 3 November 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 6,135 ha in total · 6 days
  50. 3,336 ha Damboa fire, 2 November 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,143 ha in total · 7 days
  51. 527 ha Kaga fire, 2 November 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 3,397 ha in total · 2 days
  52. 2,245 ha Damboa fire, 2 November 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,312 ha in total · 4 days
  53. 491 ha Kaga fire, 1 November 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 4,510 ha in total · 3 days
  54. 791 ha Gwoza fire, 27 October 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 3,405 ha in total · 3 days
  55. 3,060 ha Damboa fire, 27 October 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,041 ha in total · 5 days
  56. 2,042 ha Damboa fire, 24 October 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,433 ha in total · 6 days
  57. 2,968 ha Damboa fire, 24 October 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,949 ha in total · 5 days
  58. 400 ha Gujba fire, 24 February 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,889 ha in total · 1 day
  59. 2,662 ha Damboa fire, 24 February 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,645 ha in total · 2 days
  60. 896 ha Damboa fire, 19 February 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,244 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).