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Wildfires in Gummi

Gummi, Nigeria, has had 28 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 99,541 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 34% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 21).

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. Tue 27 High 35° · 30 % · 14 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 38 % · 22 km/h
  3. Thu 29 High 34° · 31 % · 25 km/h
  4. Fri 30 High 34° · 28 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sat 31 High 34° · 34 % · 20 km/h
  6. Sun 1 High 35° · 28 % · 18 km/h
  7. Mon 2 High 35° · 30 % · 16 km/h
  8. Tue 3 High 35° · 28 % · 18 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

99,541
hectares burned
34 %
of its area
28
fires
2,963
km²

How many times has Gummi burned?

Gummi has burned 28 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Kebbe fire, December 2025, with 1,475 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 99,541 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 47,458 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 7× 25
  11.   26
28
fires
8
years with fire
99,541
cumulative ha
47,458
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 Gummi

  1. 1,475 ha Kebbe fire, December 2025 0.5% of the municipality · 3,818 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 665 ha Wasagu-Danko fire, December 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 6,047 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 6,258 ha Gummi fire, December 2025 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 6,295 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 5,033 ha Gummi fire, 24 November 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 5,286 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 7,436 ha Gummi fire, 15 November 2025 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 7,394 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 3,389 ha Gummi fire, 4 November 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,593 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 2,771 ha Gummi fire, 2 November 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,778 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 1,069 ha Gummi fire, 20 December 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,691 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 2,152 ha Gummi fire, 12 December 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,139 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 2,028 ha Gummi fire, November 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,017 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 3,194 ha Bukkuyum fire, November 2024 1.1% of the municipality · 5,063 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 657 ha Wasagu-Danko fire, 15 December 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 5,400 ha in total · 9 days
  13. 1,848 ha Gummi fire, December 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,500 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 58 ha Wasagu-Danko fire, January 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,522 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 2,177 ha Kebbe fire, December 2022 0.7% of the municipality · 2,780 ha in total · 16 days
  16. 191 ha Wasagu-Danko fire, 19 December 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 3,540 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 62 ha Bukkuyum fire, 4 December 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,917 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 12,817 ha Gummi fire, December 2022 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 12,887 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 1 ha Bukkuyum fire, 22 December 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,066 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 3,107 ha Gummi fire, 20 December 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,091 ha in total · 7 days
  21. 15,260 ha Gummi fire, 1 December 2021 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 16,638 ha in total · 13 days
  22. 5,960 ha Gummi fire, January 2021 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 5,926 ha in total · 18 days
  23. 2,509 ha Gummi fire, December 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,596 ha in total · 13 days
  24. 292 ha Kebbe fire, January 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 3,238 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 3,028 ha Gummi fire, 22 January 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,010 ha in total · 15 days
  26. 9,627 ha Gummi fire, 19 January 2020 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 13,736 ha in total · 22 days
  27. 3,419 ha Gummi fire, January 2019 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,419 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 3,058 ha Gummi fire, December 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,959 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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