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Wildfires in Dange Shuni

Dange Shuni, Nigeria, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 8,795 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.8% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 65).

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 13 Extreme 34° · 15 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Extreme 33° · 13 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Extreme 34° · 11 % · 35 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Extreme 34° · 12 % · 34 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Extreme 34° · 11 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Extreme 34° · 12 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Extreme 34° · 13 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Extreme 34° · 15 % · 33 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Dange Shuni: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

8,795
hectares burned
7.8 %
of its area
3
fires
1,133
km²

How many times has Dange Shuni burned?

Dange Shuni has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Dange Shuni fire, October 2026, with 6,112 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,795 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,513 hectares, 6.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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3
fires
2
years with fire
8,795
cumulative ha
7,513
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 Dange Shuni

  1. 6,112 ha Dange Shuni fire, October 2026 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 7,748 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 793 ha Bakura fire, 18 October 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 2,371 ha in total · 24 days
  3. 1,890 ha Dange Shuni fire, November 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,056 ha in total · 2 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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