Wildfires in Fakai
Fakai, Nigeria, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 17,310 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.0% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 23).
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- Thu 22 High 35° · 32 % · 29 km/h
- Fri 23 High 35° · 29 % · 30 km/h
- Sat 24 Moderate 34° · 30 % · 19 km/h
- Sun 25 Moderate 34° · 25 % · 18 km/h
- Mon 26 High 33° · 30 % · 26 km/h
- Tue 27 High 34° · 36 % · 25 km/h
- Wed 28 High 34° · 34 % · 23 km/h
- Thu 29 High 36° · 22 % · 30 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
- 17,310
- hectares burned
- 9.0 %
- of its area
- 9
- fires
- 1,924
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Fakai
- 39 ha Kebbe fire, 15 February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,554 ha in total · 5 days
- 6 ha Kebbe fire, December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,818 ha in total · 11 days
- 2,368 ha Fakai fire, December 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,353 ha in total · 13 days
- 1,269 ha Fakai fire, January 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,475 ha in total · 6 days
- 3,838 ha Fakai fire, December 2023 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,813 ha in total · 11 days
- 2,969 ha Fakai fire, January 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,949 ha in total · 10 days
- 2,297 ha Fakai fire, January 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,320 ha in total · 7 days
- 2,303 ha Fakai fire, December 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,288 ha in total · 10 days
- 2,222 ha Fakai fire, December 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,207 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).