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Wildfires in Gusau

Gusau, Nigeria, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 18,234 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.9% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 28).

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. Sun 25 High 33° · 19 % · 27 km/h
  2. Mon 26 High 34° · 21 % · 26 km/h
  3. Tue 27 High 33° · 33 % · 29 km/h
  4. Wed 28 High 33° · 22 % · 26 km/h
  5. Thu 29 High 33° · 22 % · 31 km/h
  6. Fri 30 High 34° · 19 % · 37 km/h
  7. Sat 31 High 34° · 18 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sun 1 High 35° · 17 % · 31 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

18,234
hectares burned
8.9 %
of its area
13
fires
2,042
km²

How many times has Gusau burned?

Gusau has burned 13 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2021, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Dan Musa fire, December 2025, with 6 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 18,234 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 15,684 hectares, 7.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 5× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
13
fires
5
years with fire
18,234
cumulative ha
15,684
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 Gusau

  1. 6 ha Dan Musa fire, December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,707 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,527 ha Gusau fire, November 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,511 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 70 ha Dan Musa fire, December 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,095 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 769 ha Tsafe fire, 25 December 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 2,848 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 3,281 ha Tsafe fire, 12 December 2024 1.6% of the municipality · 3,537 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 516 ha Bungudu fire, November 2024 0.2% of the municipality · 2,737 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 1,568 ha Dan Musa fire, December 2021 0.8% of the municipality · 4,596 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 1,249 ha Dan Musa fire, December 2019 0.6% of the municipality · 2,760 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 661 ha Gusau fire, 12 December 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,486 ha in total · 11 days
  10. 1,990 ha Gusau fire, 9 December 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,016 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 3,388 ha Gusau fire, 8 December 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,737 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 1,964 ha Gusau fire, November 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,334 ha in total · 21 days
  13. 1,244 ha Maru fire, 27 November 2016 0.6% of the municipality · 14,869 ha in total · 25 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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