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Wildfires in Etsako Central

Etsako Central, Nigeria, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 10,047 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Sat 24 Very low 34° · 55 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 33° · 59 % · 28 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 68 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 64 % · 19 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 60 % · 27 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 57 % · 35 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 65 % · 23 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

10,047
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
10
fires
713
km²

How many times has Etsako Central burned?

Etsako Central has burned 10 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Etsako Central fire, March 2026, with 2,265 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,047 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,707 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 4× 26
10
fires
5
years with fire
10,047
cumulative ha
9,707
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 Etsako Central

  1. 2,265 ha Etsako Central fire, March 2026 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 2,251 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 61 ha Etsako West fire, January 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,167 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,311 ha Etsako Central fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 2,296 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 3,543 ha Etsako Central fire, 2 January 2026 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 3,520 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 179 ha Etsako West fire, December 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 3,375 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 155 ha Esan North-East fire, January 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 2,510 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 234 ha Etsako West fire, 19 January 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 3,009 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 8 ha Etsako West fire, 18 January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 4,540 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 4 ha Etsako West fire, 18 January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,400 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 1,287 ha Etsako West fire, 16 January 2021 1.8% of the municipality · 3,767 ha in total · 9 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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