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Wildfires in Esan West

Esan West, Nigeria, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 33,872 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 66% 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 30 Very low 30° · 76 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 29° · 69 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 71 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 65 % · 49 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 63 % · 48 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 30° · 68 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 70 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 67 % · 29 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

33,872
hectares burned
66 %
of its area
12
fires
514
km²

How many times has Esan West burned?

Esan West has burned 12 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2021, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Iguegben fire, 6 February 2024, with 637 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 33,872 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 24,256 hectares, 47 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
12
fires
5
years with fire
33,872
cumulative ha
24,256
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 Esan West

  1. 637 ha Iguegben fire, 6 February 2024 1.2% of the municipality · 2,272 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 4,889 ha Esan West fire, February 2024 where it started 9.5% of the municipality · 5,508 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 825 ha Uhunmwonde fire, 13 February 2023 1.6% of the municipality · 2,411 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 6,526 ha Esan West fire, 11 February 2023 where it started 13% of the municipality · 8,760 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 607 ha Esan West fire, 11 February 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,064 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 9,745 ha Iguegben fire, 5 February 2023 19% of the municipality · 44,167 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 20 ha Uhunmwonde fire, February 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 5,728 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 4,389 ha Esan West fire, 14 February 2017 where it started 8.5% of the municipality · 5,548 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 2,399 ha Esan West fire, 11 February 2017 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 2,659 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 1,985 ha Esan West fire, 24 January 2016 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 2,178 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 1,839 ha Esan West fire, 24 January 2016 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 2,037 ha in total · 7 days
  12. 12 ha Uhunmwonde fire, 22 January 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 9,086 ha in total · 19 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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