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Wildfires in Ikom

Ikom, Nigeria, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 14,034 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.5% 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. Thu 22 Very low 30° · 72 % · 25 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 32° · 64 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 68 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 66 % · 24 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 30° · 77 % · 20 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 70 % · 27 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 71 % · 24 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 68 % · 34 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

14,034
hectares burned
7.5 %
of its area
9
fires
1,864
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Ikom

  1. 6,832 ha Ikom fire, February 2026 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 8,162 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 93 ha Ikom fire, December 2022 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,828 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,443 ha Ikom fire, January 2022 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,426 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 1,176 ha Ikom fire, January 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,107 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 166 ha Ogoja fire, February 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 4,069 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 687 ha Ogoja fire, 17 January 2018 0.4% of the municipality · 5,222 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 2,012 ha Ikom fire, January 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,007 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 610 ha Ogoja fire, 21 January 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 3,514 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 16 ha Ogoja fire, 1 January 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,115 ha in total · 6 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).