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Wildfires in Kogi

Kogi, Nigeria, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 12,822 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.5% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 Low 34° · 49 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 35° · 48 % · 17 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 34° · 49 % · 22 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 34° · 53 % · 26 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 66 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 54 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 34° · 47 % · 25 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 33° · 60 % · 21 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

12,822
hectares burned
8.5 %
of its area
5
fires
1,502
km²

How many times has Kogi burned?

Kogi has burned 5 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2021, 2022 and 2026. The most recent: Kogi fire, February 2026, with 2,968 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,822 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 10,578 hectares, 7.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
5
fires
3
years with fire
12,822
cumulative ha
10,578
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 Kogi

  1. 2,968 ha Kogi fire, February 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,951 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 3,293 ha Kogi fire, January 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 3,273 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 2,339 ha Kogi fire, January 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,325 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,499 ha Toto fire, 21 January 2021 1.0% of the municipality · 3,350 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 2,723 ha Kogi fire, January 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,707 ha in total · 4 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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