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Wildfires in Giwa

Giwa, Nigeria, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 10,424 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.5% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

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 23 High 32° · 29 % · 38 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 31° · 28 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 31° · 24 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 31° · 33 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 31° · 32 % · 23 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 32° · 25 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 32° · 25 % · 45 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 32° · 23 % · 32 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

10,424
hectares burned
4.5 %
of its area
6
fires
2,318
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Giwa

  1. 2,081 ha Giwa fire, 16 January 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,069 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 107 ha Birnin Gwari fire, 6 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,759 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,312 ha Giwa fire, 3 January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,299 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 2,667 ha Birnin Gwari fire, 21 January 2020 1.2% of the municipality · 3,175 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,098 ha Giwa fire, January 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,311 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 2,159 ha Giwa fire, December 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,066 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).