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Wildfires in Guzamala

Guzamala, Nigeria, has had 21 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 49,794 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 57).

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 1 Extreme 40° · 11 % · 38 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Extreme 40° · 9 % · 28 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Extreme 40° · 7 % · 31 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Extreme 40° · 7 % · 32 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Extreme 40° · 8 % · 36 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Extreme 39° · 9 % · 35 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Extreme 39° · 8 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Extreme 39° · 10 % · 37 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

49,794
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
21
fires
2,387
km²

How many times has Guzamala burned?

Guzamala has burned 21 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Kukawa fire, 31 October 2026, with 2,085 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 49,794 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 42,248 hectares, 18 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 4× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 9× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
21
fires
8
years with fire
49,794
cumulative ha
42,248
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 Guzamala

  1. 2,085 ha Kukawa fire, 31 October 2026 0.9% of the municipality · 4,155 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 3,171 ha Guzamala fire, October 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,843 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 1,015 ha Kukawa fire, 20 October 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 3,763 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 2,683 ha Guzamala fire, October 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,667 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 909 ha Monguno fire, October 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 2,270 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 6,678 ha Guzamala fire, December 2020 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 6,637 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 1,459 ha Monguno fire, 9 November 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 3,804 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 2,708 ha Guzamala fire, 4 November 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,692 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 2,134 ha Guzamala fire, 3 November 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,121 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,196 ha Gubio fire, October 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 3,981 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 452 ha Nganzai fire, October 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 2,782 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 1,603 ha Guzamala fire, 21 October 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,151 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 2,978 ha Guzamala fire, 21 October 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,620 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 2,864 ha Guzamala fire, 20 October 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,849 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 973 ha Nganzai fire, November 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 2,088 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 2,746 ha Kukawa fire, November 2018 1.2% of the municipality · 4,952 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 2,411 ha Guzamala fire, 19 October 2018 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,397 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 4,237 ha Guzamala fire, 19 October 2018 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,214 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 1,731 ha Kukawa fire, 18 October 2018 0.7% of the municipality · 4,217 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 2,269 ha Guzamala fire, October 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,257 ha in total · 7 days
  21. 3,492 ha Guzamala fire, November 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,219 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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