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Wildfires in Dan Musa

Dan Musa, Nigeria, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 12,439 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 44).

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 Very high 36° · 14 % · 36 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very high 36° · 14 % · 30 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very high 35° · 15 % · 37 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very high 36° · 14 % · 37 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very high 35° · 15 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very high 36° · 15 % · 40 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Extreme 36° · 14 % · 46 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Extreme 35° · 15 % · 51 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

12,439
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
7
fires
1,092
km²

How many times has Dan Musa burned?

Dan Musa has burned 7 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Safana fire, 25 January 2026, with 37 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,439 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,646 hectares, 8.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
7
fires
6
years with fire
12,439
cumulative ha
9,646
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 Dan Musa

  1. 37 ha Safana fire, 25 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 6,904 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 778 ha Safana fire, 7 January 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 2,193 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 2,718 ha Dan Musa fire, December 2025 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,707 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,039 ha Dan Musa fire, December 2024 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,095 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 2,281 ha Dan Musa fire, February 2022 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,281 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 3,057 ha Dan Musa fire, December 2021 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 4,596 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 1,528 ha Dan Musa fire, December 2019 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,760 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).

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