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Wildfires in Kankara

Kankara, Nigeria, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2024: 2,495 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.0% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 31).

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 24 High 33° · 19 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 32° · 18 % · 30 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 33° · 19 % · 29 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 33° · 23 % · 18 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 34° · 18 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very high 34° · 18 % · 45 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 34° · 16 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 34° · 16 % · 28 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

2,495
hectares burned
2.0 %
of its area
1
fires
1,268
km²

How many times has Kankara burned?

Kankara has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2024. The most recent: Kankara fire, December 2024, with 2,495 hectares inside the municipality.

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  9. 1× 24
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  11.   26
1
fires
1
years with fire
2,495
cumulative ha
19 Dec 2024
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 Kankara

  1. 2,495 ha Kankara fire, December 2024 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,983 ha in total · 8 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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