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Wildfires in Gassol

Gassol, Nigeria, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 17,508 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.3% 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. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 47 % · 24 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 59 % · 28 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 60 % · 20 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Low 33° · 51 % · 14 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Moderate 33° · 53 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Low 34° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Moderate 34° · 56 % · 25 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

17,508
hectares burned
3.3 %
of its area
5
fires
5,332
km²

How many times has Gassol burned?

Gassol has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2020, 2021, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Gassol fire, January 2026, with 4,552 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 17,508 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,901 hectares, 2.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
5
fires
5
years with fire
17,508
cumulative ha
10,901
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 Gassol

  1. 4,552 ha Gassol fire, January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,520 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 2,978 ha Gassol fire, January 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,957 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 3,960 ha Gassol fire, December 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,932 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 2,644 ha Gassol fire, February 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,626 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 3,375 ha Gassol fire, December 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,351 ha in total · 12 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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