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Wildfires in Esan Central

Esan Central, Nigeria, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,780 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 Very low 31° · 61 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 30° · 69 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 71 % · 27 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 28° · 85 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 65 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 61 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 64 % · 28 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

3,780
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
8
fires
252
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Esan Central

  1. 252 ha Esan West fire, February 2024 1.0% of the municipality · 5,508 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,129 ha Esan West fire, 14 February 2023 8.5% of the municipality · 8,760 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 199 ha Iguegben fire, 11 February 2023 0.8% of the municipality · 44,167 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 153 ha Etsako West fire, 15 February 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 2,263 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 198 ha Esan West fire, 14 February 2017 0.8% of the municipality · 5,548 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 270 ha Esan West fire, 14 February 2017 1.1% of the municipality · 2,659 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 367 ha Etsako West fire, 11 February 2017 1.5% of the municipality · 2,261 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 212 ha Esan West fire, 27 January 2016 0.8% of the municipality · 2,037 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).