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Wildfires in Iguegben

Iguegben, Nigeria, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 29,623 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 79% 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. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 60 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 31° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 29° · 79 % · 24 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 74 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 67 % · 20 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 59 % · 36 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 64 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 67 % · 25 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

29,623
hectares burned
79 %
of its area
11
fires
377
km²

How many times has Iguegben burned?

Iguegben has burned 11 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2024. The most recent: Iguegben fire, 6 February 2024, with 1,650 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 29,623 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 17,508 hectares, 46 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 4× 24
  10.   25
  11.   26
11
fires
6
years with fire
29,623
cumulative ha
17,508
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 Iguegben

  1. 1,650 ha Iguegben fire, 6 February 2024 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 2,272 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,454 ha Iguegben fire, 5 February 2024 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 2,816 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 3,130 ha Iguegben fire, 4 February 2024 where it started 8.3% of the municipality · 3,260 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,246 ha Iguegben fire, 3 February 2024 where it started 6.0% of the municipality · 4,597 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 3,416 ha Iguegben fire, 15 February 2023 where it started 9.1% of the municipality · 4,938 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 163 ha Esan West fire, 14 February 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 8,760 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 11,845 ha Iguegben fire, 11 February 2023 where it started 31% of the municipality · 44,167 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 923 ha Esan South-East fire, February 2021 2.4% of the municipality · 3,089 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,950 ha Orhionmwon fire, 21 January 2020 5.2% of the municipality · 7,162 ha in total · 19 days
  10. 1,283 ha Esan South-East fire, 13 February 2017 3.4% of the municipality · 10,256 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 1,563 ha Orhionmwon fire, 23 January 2016 4.1% of the municipality · 5,997 ha in total · 9 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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