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Wildfires in Gwoza

Gwoza, Nigeria, has had 47 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 110,929 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 31% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 41).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out 3 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 1 High 37° · 27 % · 23 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very high 37° · 16 % · 30 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very high 36° · 17 % · 30 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very high 37° · 16 % · 26 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very high 36° · 16 % · 26 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very high 36° · 17 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very high 36° · 15 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very high 38° · 15 % · 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

110,929
hectares burned
31 %
of its area
47
fires
3,609
km²

How many times has Gwoza burned?

Gwoza has burned 47 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The most recent: Gwoza fire, 31 December 2025, with 2,144 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 110,929 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 88,163 hectares, 24 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 9× 16
  2. 7× 17
  3.   18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 7× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7.   22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 8× 25
  11.   26
47
fires
8
years with fire
110,929
cumulative ha
88,163
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 Gwoza

  1. 630 ha Konduga fire, 24 October 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 336 ha Gwoza fire, October 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 84 ha Damboa fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 2,144 ha Gwoza fire, 31 December 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,130 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 3,057 ha Gwoza fire, 3 December 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,037 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 2,059 ha Gwoza fire, 29 November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,046 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 2,037 ha Gwoza fire, 27 November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,087 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 2,207 ha Gwoza fire, 26 November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,194 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 2,247 ha Gwoza fire, 16 November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,234 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 2,478 ha Gwoza fire, 6 November 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,756 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 3,268 ha Gwoza fire, 2 November 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,246 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 2,119 ha Gwoza fire, 29 November 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,107 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 2,716 ha Gwoza fire, 11 November 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,788 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 2,151 ha Gwoza fire, 17 November 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,139 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 2,498 ha Gwoza fire, 9 November 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,483 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 641 ha Gwoza fire, 8 November 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,177 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 5,578 ha Gwoza fire, 6 November 2023 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 5,546 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 2,741 ha Gwoza fire, January 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,726 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 2,853 ha Gwoza fire, 17 November 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,836 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 3,561 ha Gwoza fire, 9 November 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,888 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 3,239 ha Gwoza fire, 1 November 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,221 ha in total · 13 days
  22. 957 ha Damboa fire, February 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 2,610 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 2,900 ha Gwoza fire, December 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,883 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 213 ha Damboa fire, 17 November 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 3,285 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 598 ha Gwoza fire, 12 November 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,009 ha in total · 8 days
  26. 2,522 ha Gwoza fire, 9 November 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,507 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 2,035 ha Gwoza fire, 3 November 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,023 ha in total · 5 days
  28. 2,348 ha Gwoza fire, October 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,339 ha in total · 4 days
  29. 834 ha Damboa fire, February 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 2,324 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 2,065 ha Gwoza fire, 26 November 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,934 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 3,703 ha Gwoza fire, 24 November 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,680 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 2,872 ha Gwoza fire, 23 November 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,853 ha in total · 7 days
  33. 2,434 ha Gwoza fire, 23 November 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 4,567 ha in total · 12 days
  34. 2,096 ha Gwoza fire, January 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,084 ha in total · 3 days
  35. 2,149 ha Gwoza fire, November 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,135 ha in total · 4 days
  36. 2,187 ha Gwoza fire, 31 October 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,174 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 2,159 ha Gwoza fire, 25 October 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,145 ha in total · 7 days
  38. 2,519 ha Gwoza fire, 25 October 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,503 ha in total · 4 days
  39. 551 ha Damboa fire, 24 October 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 19,968 ha in total · 20 days
  40. 1,900 ha Gwoza fire, 21 October 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,056 ha in total · 4 days
  41. 3,570 ha Gwoza fire, 21 October 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,549 ha in total · 23 days
  42. 802 ha Madagali fire, November 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 4,024 ha in total · 8 days
  43. 2,140 ha Gwoza fire, 10 November 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,128 ha in total · 5 days
  44. 337 ha Damboa fire, 3 November 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 6,135 ha in total · 6 days
  45. 6,668 ha Gwoza fire, 3 November 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 6,627 ha in total · 7 days
  46. 2,552 ha Gwoza fire, 1 November 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,537 ha in total · 7 days
  47. 2,634 ha Gwoza fire, 22 October 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,405 ha in total · 12 days
  48. 2,077 ha Gwoza fire, 22 October 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,065 ha in total · 5 days
  49. 2,560 ha Gwoza fire, 21 October 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,544 ha in total · 7 days
  50. 2,955 ha Gwoza fire, February 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,936 ha in total · 7 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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