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Wildfires in Kabba/Bunu

Kabba/Bunu, Nigeria, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 26,394 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.9% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 23).

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 14 Moderate 31° · 48 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 15 High 33° · 34 % · 28 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Moderate 33° · 34 % · 18 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Moderate 32° · 38 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Moderate 33° · 40 % · 21 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Moderate 33° · 35 % · 18 km/h
  7. Fri 20 High 34° · 35 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 21 High 33° · 39 % · 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 Kabba/Bunu: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

26,394
hectares burned
9.9 %
of its area
4
fires
2,672
km²

How many times has Kabba/Bunu burned?

Kabba/Bunu has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2018 and 2025. The most recent: Kabba/Bunu fire, December 2025, with 21,248 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 26,394 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 23,571 hectares, 8.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
4
fires
3
years with fire
26,394
cumulative ha
23,571
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 Kabba/Bunu

  1. 21,248 ha Kabba/Bunu fire, December 2025 where it started 8.0% of the municipality · 33,333 ha in total · 37 days
  2. 2,008 ha Kabba/Bunu fire, January 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,087 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 1,680 ha Kabba/Bunu fire, 14 January 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,226 ha in total · 22 days
  4. 1,458 ha Kabba/Bunu fire, 13 January 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,104 ha in total · 19 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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