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Wildfires in Ibaji

Ibaji, Nigeria, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 12,740 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Mon 26 Very low 34° · 55 % · 27 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 68 % · 29 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 61 % · 16 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 58 % · 16 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 62 % · 27 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 32° · 59 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 33° · 56 % · 19 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 33° · 61 % · 57 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

12,740
hectares burned
9.4 %
of its area
8
fires
1,355
km²

How many times has Ibaji burned?

Ibaji has burned 8 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Anambra West fire, 25 February 2026, with 148 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,740 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 11,102 hectares, 8.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 4× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
8
fires
4
years with fire
12,740
cumulative ha
11,102
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 Ibaji

  1. 148 ha Anambra West fire, 25 February 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,283 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 32 ha Uzo-Uwani fire, January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 3,619 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 3,287 ha Ibaji fire, 19 January 2022 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,266 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 833 ha Anambra West fire, January 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 6,735 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 3,772 ha Ibaji fire, 12 January 2022 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 3,747 ha in total · 20 days
  6. 2,092 ha Ibaji fire, February 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,079 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 213 ha Anambra West fire, February 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 6,767 ha in total · 23 days
  8. 2,363 ha Ibaji fire, January 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,347 ha in total · 16 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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