Wildfires in Isa
Isa, Nigeria, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 8,907 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 39).
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- Fri 23 Very high 35° · 19 % · 40 km/h
- Sat 24 Very high 35° · 17 % · 29 km/h
- Sun 25 High 35° · 14 % · 24 km/h
- Mon 26 Very high 35° · 16 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 27 High 36° · 17 % · 22 km/h
- Wed 28 Very high 36° · 16 % · 29 km/h
- Thu 29 Very high 36° · 19 % · 41 km/h
- Fri 30 Very high 36° · 18 % · 35 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
- 8,907
- hectares burned
- 4.3 %
- of its area
- 3
- fires
- 2,050
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Isa
- 2,844 ha Isa fire, January 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,836 ha in total · 4 days
- 2,898 ha Isa fire, December 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,907 ha in total · 3 days
- 3,166 ha Isa fire, January 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,148 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).