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Wildfires in Idanre

Idanre, Nigeria, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 112,458 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 58% 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 2 Very low 32° · 58 % · 19 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 62 % · 40 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 64 % · 23 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 33° · 53 % · 34 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Low 33° · 49 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 32° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 32° · 59 % · 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

112,458
hectares burned
58 %
of its area
19
fires
1,954
km²

How many times has Idanre burned?

Idanre has burned 19 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Idanre fire, January 2026, with 2,288 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 112,458 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 31,716 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
19
fires
10
years with fire
112,458
cumulative ha
31,716
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 Idanre

  1. 2,288 ha Idanre fire, January 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,274 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 5,478 ha Idanre fire, December 2024 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 5,520 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 2,813 ha Idanre fire, 18 January 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,795 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 2,094 ha Idanre fire, 7 January 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,080 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 2,713 ha Idanre fire, 11 February 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,750 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 5,533 ha Idanre fire, 8 February 2023 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 8,772 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 2,133 ha Idanre fire, 16 January 2022 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,135 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 15,549 ha Idanre fire, 14 January 2022 where it started 8.0% of the municipality · 15,831 ha in total · 25 days
  9. 2,988 ha Idanre fire, January 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,969 ha in total · 17 days
  10. 244 ha Owo fire, 18 January 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 3,667 ha in total · 17 days
  11. 20,827 ha Owo fire, 13 January 2020 11% of the municipality · 20,771 ha in total · 34 days
  12. 11,775 ha Idanre fire, February 2019 where it started 6.0% of the municipality · 11,751 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 2,563 ha Idanre fire, 24 January 2018 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,546 ha in total · 11 days
  14. 3,238 ha Idanre fire, 22 January 2018 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,218 ha in total · 16 days
  15. 877 ha Ovia South-West fire, February 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 2,966 ha in total · 6 days
  16. 6,315 ha Ose fire, 7 February 2017 3.2% of the municipality · 12,653 ha in total · 21 days
  17. 6,266 ha Idanre fire, February 2016 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 6,345 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 1,632 ha Idanre fire, 24 January 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,063 ha in total · 9 days
  19. 17,132 ha Idanre fire, 13 January 2016 where it started 8.8% of the municipality · 28,739 ha in total · 29 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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