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Wildfires in Konshisha

Konshisha, Nigeria, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 11,791 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.4% 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. Sat 24 Low 33° · 55 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 32° · 59 % · 32 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 64 % · 30 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 67 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 30° · 68 % · 20 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 55 % · 29 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 61 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 31° · 67 % · 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

11,791
hectares burned
6.4 %
of its area
7
fires
1,841
km²

How many times has Konshisha burned?

Konshisha has burned 7 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Yala fire, 3 January 2026, with 1,523 hectares inside the municipality.

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7
fires
3
years with fire
11,791
cumulative ha
3 Jan 2026
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 Konshisha

  1. 1,523 ha Yala fire, 3 January 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 3,487 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 1,175 ha Oju fire, 3 January 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 3,720 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 260 ha Gwer East fire, 3 January 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,813 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2,767 ha Oju fire, 3 January 2026 1.5% of the municipality · 9,994 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 3,269 ha Konshisha fire, January 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,248 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 2,595 ha Konshisha fire, December 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,579 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 200 ha Oju fire, December 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,364 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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