Wildfires in Jibia
Jibia, Nigeria, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 8,843 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.3% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 41).
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 34° · 21 % · 38 km/h
- Sat 24 Very high 34° · 19 % · 34 km/h
- Sun 25 Very high 33° · 16 % · 30 km/h
- Mon 26 Very high 34° · 17 % · 27 km/h
- Tue 27 High 34° · 19 % · 21 km/h
- Wed 28 Very high 35° · 20 % · 27 km/h
- Thu 29 Very high 35° · 17 % · 45 km/h
- Fri 30 Very high 35° · 19 % · 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
- 8,843
- hectares burned
- 8.3 %
- of its area
- 5
- fires
- 1,071
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Jibia
- 2,038 ha Jibia fire, November 2025 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,025 ha in total · 4 days
- 2,178 ha Batsari fire, November 2025 2.0% of the municipality · 4,347 ha in total · 6 days
- 1,204 ha Jibia fire, December 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,205 ha in total · 7 days
- 1,780 ha Jibia fire, November 2023 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,285 ha in total · 4 days
- 1,643 ha Jibia fire, December 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,561 ha in total · 3 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).