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Wildfires in Gashaka

Gashaka, Nigeria, has had 33 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 100,215 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 12% 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. Mon 26 Low 32° · 45 % · 23 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 69 % · 19 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 28° · 66 % · 19 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 47 % · 21 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 55 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 58 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 64 % · 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

100,215
hectares burned
12 %
of its area
33
fires
8,539
km²

How many times has Gashaka burned?

Gashaka has burned 33 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Gashaka fire, March 2026, with 2,458 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 100,215 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 75,855 hectares, 8.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 10× 25
  11. 9× 26
33
fires
9
years with fire
100,215
cumulative ha
75,855
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 Gashaka

  1. 2,458 ha Gashaka fire, March 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,444 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 2,452 ha Gashaka fire, February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,387 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 423 ha Bali fire, 16 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,611 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 5,366 ha Gashaka fire, 16 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,360 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 1,720 ha Gashaka fire, 15 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,721 ha in total · 23 days
  6. 3,621 ha Gashaka fire, 14 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,596 ha in total · 21 days
  7. 2,355 ha Gashaka fire, 13 January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,339 ha in total · 22 days
  8. 10,969 ha Gashaka fire, 13 January 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 10,890 ha in total · 29 days
  9. 2,406 ha Gashaka fire, 13 January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,389 ha in total · 28 days
  10. 4,343 ha Gashaka fire, December 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,316 ha in total · 24 days
  11. 2,272 ha Gashaka fire, 20 November 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,259 ha in total · 15 days
  12. 380 ha Gashaka fire, 16 November 2025 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,578 ha in total · 19 days
  13. 1,963 ha Gashaka fire, February 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,908 ha in total · 13 days
  14. 8,392 ha Gashaka fire, 17 January 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,332 ha in total · 27 days
  15. 2,353 ha Gashaka fire, 16 January 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,336 ha in total · 21 days
  16. 7,906 ha Gashaka fire, 16 January 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 7,849 ha in total · 21 days
  17. 3,884 ha Gashaka fire, 15 January 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,000 ha in total · 22 days
  18. 689 ha Toungo fire, 15 January 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 5,364 ha in total · 23 days
  19. 1,213 ha Gashaka fire, 14 January 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,040 ha in total · 23 days
  20. 2,669 ha Gashaka fire, February 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,654 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 2,108 ha Gashaka fire, 12 January 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,093 ha in total · 16 days
  22. 2,501 ha Gashaka fire, 7 January 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,546 ha in total · 20 days
  23. 2,056 ha Gashaka fire, 4 February 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,044 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 2,836 ha Gashaka fire, 1 February 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,817 ha in total · 15 days
  25. 2,026 ha Gashaka fire, 20 January 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,011 ha in total · 17 days
  26. 3,543 ha Gashaka fire, 20 January 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,516 ha in total · 16 days
  27. 2,469 ha Gashaka fire, 17 January 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,451 ha in total · 22 days
  28. 3,354 ha Gashaka fire, 15 January 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,329 ha in total · 19 days
  29. 2,112 ha Gashaka fire, 19 January 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,096 ha in total · 17 days
  30. 2,280 ha Gashaka fire, 18 January 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,265 ha in total · 17 days
  31. 2,675 ha Gashaka fire, 15 January 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,655 ha in total · 19 days
  32. 2,247 ha Gashaka fire, January 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,231 ha in total · 20 days
  33. 2,174 ha Gashaka fire, January 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,161 ha in total · 10 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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