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Wildfires in Kanke

Kanke, Nigeria, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2016: 3,156 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.6% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Sun 25 Moderate 31° · 34 % · 22 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 30° · 37 % · 22 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 29° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Moderate 30° · 28 % · 32 km/h
  5. Thu 29 High 32° · 25 % · 60 km/h
  6. Fri 30 High 32° · 20 % · 36 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Moderate 32° · 28 % · 29 km/h
  8. Sun 1 High 33° · 23 % · 33 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

3,156
hectares burned
3.6 %
of its area
1
fires
880
km²

How many times has Kanke burned?

Kanke has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2016. The most recent: Kanke fire, February 2016, with 3,156 hectares inside the municipality.

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1
fires
1
years with fire
3,156
cumulative ha
17 Feb 2016
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 Kanke

  1. 3,156 ha Kanke fire, February 2016 where it started 3.6% 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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