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Wildfires in Etsako West

Etsako West, Nigeria, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 28,138 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 31% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 32° · 58 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 61 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 67 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 32° · 65 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 61 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 58 % · 34 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 57 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 63 % · 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

28,138
hectares burned
31 %
of its area
11
fires
902
km²

How many times has Etsako West burned?

Etsako West has burned 11 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Etsako West fire, January 2026, with 2,120 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 28,138 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,629 hectares, 17 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
11
fires
6
years with fire
28,138
cumulative ha
15,629
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 West

  1. 2,120 ha Etsako West fire, January 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,167 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 3,218 ha Etsako West fire, December 2025 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 3,375 ha in total · 23 days
  3. 2,175 ha Esan North-East fire, January 2023 2.4% of the municipality · 2,510 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 4,328 ha Etsako West fire, December 2022 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 4,301 ha in total · 24 days
  5. 2,600 ha Etsako West fire, 19 January 2022 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 3,009 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 4,560 ha Etsako West fire, 12 January 2022 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 4,540 ha in total · 24 days
  7. 3,417 ha Etsako West fire, 11 January 2021 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 3,400 ha in total · 22 days
  8. 1,703 ha Etsako West fire, 10 January 2021 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,767 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 2,124 ha Etsako West fire, 15 February 2017 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,263 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 7 ha Esan West fire, 11 February 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,659 ha in total · 13 days
  11. 1,885 ha Etsako West fire, 5 February 2017 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,261 ha in total · 24 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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