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Wildfires in Kachia

Kachia, Nigeria, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 22,766 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.0% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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. Mon 26 Moderate 31° · 45 % · 18 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Moderate 30° · 46 % · 19 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Moderate 32° · 34 % · 19 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Moderate 32° · 28 % · 32 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Moderate 33° · 32 % · 30 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Moderate 31° · 43 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Moderate 33° · 29 % · 24 km/h
  8. Mon 2 High 34° · 21 % · 29 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

22,766
hectares burned
5.0 %
of its area
10
fires
4,599
km²

How many times has Kachia burned?

Kachia has burned 10 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kachia fire, January 2026, with 1,505 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 1× 26
10
fires
5
years with fire
22,766
cumulative ha
1 Jan 2026
most recent

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 Kachia

  1. 1,505 ha Kachia fire, January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,312 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 4,491 ha Kachia fire, 29 December 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,461 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 3,187 ha Kachia fire, 8 December 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,168 ha in total · 23 days
  4. 2,696 ha Kachia fire, 6 December 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,680 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 2,137 ha Kachia fire, November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,124 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 38 ha Kajuru fire, November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 7,789 ha in total · 25 days
  7. 2,165 ha Kachia fire, December 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,151 ha in total · 14 days
  8. 2,587 ha Kachia fire, January 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,916 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,584 ha Kachia fire, 30 January 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,385 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 2,377 ha Kachia fire, 15 January 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,360 ha in total · 17 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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