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Wildfires in Kaga

Kaga, Nigeria, has had 25 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 60,494 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% 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. Fri 23 High 33° · 28 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 32° · 25 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 33° · 23 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 33° · 22 % · 14 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 34° · 21 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 34° · 25 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 33° · 23 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 34° · 24 % · 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

60,494
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
25
fires
3,674
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kaga

  1. 5,325 ha Kaga fire, November 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 6,028 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 769 ha Kaga fire, February 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,110 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 1,979 ha Damboa fire, January 2021 0.5% of the municipality · 3,779 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 7 ha Damboa fire, 25 December 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,371 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 1,552 ha Damboa fire, 18 November 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 2,023 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 72 ha Konduga fire, January 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,410 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 9,100 ha Damboa fire, 1 December 2019 2.5% of the municipality · 12,660 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 169 ha Konduga fire, February 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 3,087 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 3,318 ha Kaga fire, 15 October 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,300 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 2,078 ha Kaga fire, 15 October 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,241 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 842 ha Kaga fire, 15 October 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,687 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 3,069 ha Damboa fire, 15 October 2017 0.8% of the municipality · 4,969 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 2,954 ha Kaga fire, 14 October 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,937 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 2,215 ha Kaga fire, December 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,203 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 1,883 ha Kaga fire, 27 November 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,382 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 2,685 ha Kaga fire, 13 November 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,668 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 2,082 ha Kaga fire, 2 November 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,397 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 4,045 ha Kaga fire, 1 November 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,510 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 6,847 ha Kaga fire, 1 November 2016 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 6,806 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 407 ha Damboa fire, 24 October 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,433 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 2,185 ha Kaga fire, October 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,173 ha in total · 1 day
  22. 1,547 ha Kaga fire, April 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,039 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 2,906 ha Kaga fire, 22 March 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,891 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 2,411 ha Kaga fire, 10 March 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,723 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 46 ha Damboa fire, 19 February 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,244 ha in total · 7 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).