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Wildfires in Demsa

Demsa, Nigeria, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 21,951 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% 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. Thu 22 Moderate 36° · 28 % · 17 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Moderate 34° · 33 % · 20 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Moderate 34° · 26 % · 18 km/h
  4. Sun 25 High 35° · 30 % · 24 km/h
  5. Mon 26 High 36° · 29 % · 26 km/h
  6. Tue 27 High 35° · 33 % · 30 km/h
  7. Wed 28 High 36° · 26 % · 33 km/h
  8. Thu 29 High 38° · 22 % · 30 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

21,951
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
12
fires
1,597
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Demsa

  1. 1,261 ha Demsa fire, January 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,310 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 2,406 ha Demsa fire, February 2022 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,391 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,581 ha Demsa fire, January 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,318 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,411 ha Demsa fire, January 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,013 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,331 ha Demsa fire, February 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,465 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 357 ha Numan fire, December 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 2,188 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,990 ha Demsa fire, 25 January 2019 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 4,091 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 3,669 ha Demsa fire, 23 January 2019 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 3,665 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 977 ha Numan fire, January 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 2,006 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 3,089 ha Demsa fire, 4 January 2019 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,071 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 839 ha Numan fire, February 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 3,831 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 1,042 ha Demsa fire, February 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,007 ha in total · 6 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).