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Wildfires in Guma

Guma, Nigeria, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 42,651 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 Low 33° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 34° · 48 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 33° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 33° · 58 % · 29 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 32° · 63 % · 26 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 32° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 34° · 43 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 32° · 56 % · 26 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

42,651
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
11
fires
2,948
km²

How many times has Guma burned?

Guma has burned 11 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Guma fire, 20 January 2026, with 4,592 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 42,651 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 39,252 hectares, 13 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 4× 26
11
fires
6
years with fire
42,651
cumulative ha
39,252
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 Guma

  1. 4,592 ha Guma fire, 20 January 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 4,562 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 2,474 ha Guma fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,807 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 8,590 ha Guma fire, 3 January 2026 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 8,532 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 1,548 ha Keana fire, January 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 3,996 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 12,623 ha Guma fire, 31 December 2025 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 13,619 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 2,655 ha Guma fire, 11 December 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,637 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 2,064 ha Guma fire, January 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,051 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 2,051 ha Guma fire, December 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,037 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,662 ha Guma fire, December 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,578 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 2,226 ha Guma fire, January 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,211 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 2,166 ha Guma fire, December 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,468 ha in total · 3 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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