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Wildfires in Isi-Uzo

Isi-Uzo, Nigeria, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 8,782 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 12 Low 33° · 50 % · 27 km/h
  2. Fri 13 Low 32° · 48 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sat 14 Low 33° · 49 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sun 15 Low 34° · 34 % · 22 km/h
  5. Mon 16 Low 34° · 39 % · 21 km/h
  6. Tue 17 Low 34° · 41 % · 19 km/h
  7. Wed 18 Low 34° · 41 % · 20 km/h
  8. Thu 19 Low 34° · 43 % · 19 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Isi-Uzo: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

8,782
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
3
fires
831
km²

How many times has Isi-Uzo burned?

Isi-Uzo has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2018, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Isi-Uzo fire, January 2026, with 2,050 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 8,782 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,341 hectares, 8.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
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  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
8,782
cumulative ha
7,341
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 Isi-Uzo

  1. 2,050 ha Isi-Uzo fire, January 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,560 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 3,815 ha Isi-Uzo fire, January 2021 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 4,062 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 2,917 ha Isi-Uzo fire, January 2018 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 2,898 ha in total · 15 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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