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Wildfires in Gwer West

Gwer West, Nigeria, has had 30 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 85,786 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 69% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 10 Very low 30° · 71 % · 29 km/h
  2. Wed 11 Very low 33° · 47 % · 19 km/h
  3. Thu 12 Low 34° · 38 % · 21 km/h
  4. Fri 13 Moderate 33° · 44 % · 26 km/h
  5. Sat 14 Moderate 34° · 38 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sun 15 Moderate 35° · 22 % · 26 km/h
  7. Mon 16 Moderate 35° · 35 % · 22 km/h
  8. Tue 17 Moderate 35° · 41 % · 20 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Gwer West: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

85,786
hectares burned
69 %
of its area
30
fires
1,244
km²

How many times has Gwer West burned?

Gwer West has burned 30 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Gwer West fire, January 2026, with 1,009 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 85,786 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 54,035 hectares, 43 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 2× 26
30
fires
10
years with fire
85,786
cumulative ha
54,035
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 Gwer West

  1. 1,009 ha Gwer West fire, January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,087 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 1,936 ha Oturkpo fire, January 2026 1.6% of the municipality · 4,084 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 13,359 ha Gwer West fire, December 2025 where it started 11% of the municipality · 13,720 ha in total · 25 days
  4. 6,088 ha Gwer East fire, 19 December 2025 4.9% of the municipality · 29,643 ha in total · 37 days
  5. 1,952 ha Apa fire, December 2025 1.6% of the municipality · 2,688 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 477 ha Oturkpo fire, December 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 5,771 ha in total · 20 days
  7. 1,375 ha Gwer West fire, January 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,183 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 423 ha Gwer East fire, January 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 5,297 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 992 ha Agatu fire, December 2024 0.8% of the municipality · 2,151 ha in total · 21 days
  10. 3,132 ha Gwer West fire, 3 January 2024 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 3,223 ha in total · 20 days
  11. 3,856 ha Gwer West fire, 2 January 2024 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 3,831 ha in total · 9 days
  12. 1,163 ha Gwer West fire, December 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,460 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 905 ha Agatu fire, December 2023 0.7% of the municipality · 3,551 ha in total · 17 days
  14. 0 ha Gwer East fire, 4 January 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 3,211 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 3,457 ha Gwer West fire, January 2023 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 5,178 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 2,235 ha Gwer West fire, December 2022 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,220 ha in total · 21 days
  17. 1,927 ha Gwer West fire, January 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,467 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 2,048 ha Oturkpo fire, December 2021 1.6% of the municipality · 4,085 ha in total · 22 days
  19. 2,090 ha Gwer West fire, 9 January 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,077 ha in total · 19 days
  20. 4,682 ha Gwer West fire, 3 January 2021 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 4,647 ha in total · 9 days
  21. 2,142 ha Gwer West fire, December 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,128 ha in total · 19 days
  22. 5,322 ha Gwer West fire, January 2019 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 6,770 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 5 ha Gwer East fire, January 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,383 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 10,305 ha Gwer West fire, January 2018 where it started 8.3% of the municipality · 10,082 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 2,515 ha Gwer West fire, 30 December 2017 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 3,980 ha in total · 14 days
  26. 2,309 ha Gwer West fire, 26 December 2017 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,296 ha in total · 18 days
  27. 2,307 ha Gwer West fire, January 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,005 ha in total · 12 days
  28. 1,921 ha Gwer West fire, December 2016 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,179 ha in total · 20 days
  29. 2,108 ha Gwer West fire, January 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,094 ha in total · 14 days
  30. 3,749 ha Gwer East fire, January 2016 3.0% of the municipality · 4,059 ha in total · 23 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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