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Wildfires in Dikwa

Dikwa, Nigeria, has had 29 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 65,885 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 39% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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. Sun 25 High 35° · 15 % · 24 km/h
  2. Mon 26 High 36° · 15 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 27 High 36° · 15 % · 22 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 16 % · 27 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very high 37° · 15 % · 41 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very high 38° · 15 % · 30 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very high 39° · 14 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Extreme 39° · 11 % · 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

65,885
hectares burned
39 %
of its area
29
fires
1,683
km²

How many times has Dikwa burned?

Dikwa has burned 29 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Dikwa fire, 20 October 2026, with 3,699 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 65,885 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 53,324 hectares, 32 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 7× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 8× 25
  11. 5× 26
29
fires
8
years with fire
65,885
cumulative ha
53,324
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 Dikwa

  1. 3,699 ha Dikwa fire, 20 October 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,676 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,074 ha Dikwa fire, 18 October 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,062 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 8,856 ha Dikwa fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 5.3% of the municipality · 8,806 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 4,879 ha Mafa fire, 13 October 2026 2.9% of the municipality · 8,145 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 2,259 ha Dikwa fire, 11 October 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,245 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,266 ha Dikwa fire, December 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,042 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 61 ha Marte fire, December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,478 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 2,918 ha Dikwa fire, 16 November 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,902 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 3,254 ha Dikwa fire, 15 November 2025 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,235 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 3,804 ha Dikwa fire, 3 November 2025 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 3,781 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 167 ha Bama fire, 30 October 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 3,161 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 2,669 ha Dikwa fire, October 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,654 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 235 ha Ngala fire, February 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,154 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 13 ha Ngala fire, January 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,485 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 2,042 ha Dikwa fire, 25 October 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,030 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 6,386 ha Dikwa fire, 23 October 2023 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 6,346 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 2,075 ha Dikwa fire, 23 October 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,560 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 33 ha Bama fire, 20 October 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,020 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 2,571 ha Dikwa fire, 20 October 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,098 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 1,011 ha Bama fire, 18 October 2023 0.6% of the municipality · 3,817 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 111 ha Ngala fire, 13 March 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,888 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 3,157 ha Dikwa fire, February 2021 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 6,648 ha in total · 12 days
  23. 2,321 ha Dikwa fire, January 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,307 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 318 ha Ngala fire, 3 April 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 2,852 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 2,452 ha Dikwa fire, February 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,436 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 576 ha Dikwa fire, April 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,512 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 1,031 ha Ngala fire, February 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 2,288 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 2,073 ha Dikwa fire, February 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,059 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 3,577 ha Dikwa fire, February 2017 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 4,055 ha in total · 3 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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