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Wildfires in Kanam

Kanam, Nigeria, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 21,691 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.9% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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 Moderate 34° · 28 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 33° · 29 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 33° · 26 % · 19 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 33° · 25 % · 16 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 33° · 37 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 34° · 23 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 34° · 21 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 34° · 17 % · 26 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

21,691
hectares burned
7.9 %
of its area
5
fires
2,731
km²

How many times has Kanam burned?

Kanam has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Kanam fire, 23 December 2025, with 2,612 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 21,691 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 18,564 hectares, 6.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
5
fires
3
years with fire
21,691
cumulative ha
18,564
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 Kanam

  1. 2,612 ha Kanam fire, 23 December 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,595 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 7,752 ha Kanam fire, 7 December 2025 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 7,884 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 5,458 ha Wase fire, 11 November 2025 2.0% of the municipality · 31,006 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 5,256 ha Kanam fire, November 2022 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 5,223 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 614 ha Kanke fire, February 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 3,744 ha in total · 5 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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