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Wildfires in Kontagora

Kontagora, Nigeria, has had 32 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 101,410 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 55% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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. Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 30 % · 21 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 33 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Moderate 33° · 47 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Moderate 34° · 37 % · 21 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Moderate 35° · 39 % · 23 km/h
  6. Tue 3 High 36° · 30 % · 26 km/h
  7. Wed 4 High 35° · 27 % · 21 km/h
  8. Thu 5 High 36° · 19 % · 22 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

101,410
hectares burned
55 %
of its area
32
fires
1,831
km²

How many times has Kontagora burned?

Kontagora has burned 32 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kontagora fire, January 2026, with 2,327 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 4× 22
  8. 7× 23
  9. 6× 24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 3× 26
32
fires
8
years with fire
101,410
cumulative ha
17 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 Kontagora

  1. 2,327 ha Kontagora fire, January 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,311 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 1,534 ha Mariga fire, 10 January 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 16,715 ha in total · 23 days
  3. 1 ha Magama fire, January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 3,733 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 31,483 ha Kontagora fire, 18 December 2025 where it started 17% of the municipality · 94,992 ha in total · 46 days
  5. 2,618 ha Kontagora fire, 4 December 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,601 ha in total · 7 days
  6. 2,290 ha Mariga fire, 9 January 2025 1.2% of the municipality · 6,434 ha in total · 17 days
  7. 13 ha Magama fire, January 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,293 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 2,170 ha Kontagora fire, January 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,470 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 133 ha Mariga fire, 4 January 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,349 ha in total · 12 days
  10. 995 ha Mariga fire, 23 December 2024 0.5% of the municipality · 7,651 ha in total · 25 days
  11. 8,059 ha Kontagora fire, 21 December 2024 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 8,008 ha in total · 27 days
  12. 3,376 ha Kontagora fire, 13 December 2024 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,364 ha in total · 24 days
  13. 753 ha Mariga fire, 9 December 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 3,757 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 4,182 ha Kontagora fire, January 2024 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 4,492 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 29 ha Mashegu fire, 1 January 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,941 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 15 ha Magama fire, December 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,741 ha in total · 18 days
  17. 746 ha Mariga fire, 24 December 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 2,324 ha in total · 14 days
  18. 616 ha Mariga fire, 20 December 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 19,439 ha in total · 30 days
  19. 3,393 ha Kontagora fire, 20 December 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,371 ha in total · 19 days
  20. 0 ha Mariga fire, 19 December 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,902 ha in total · 20 days
  21. 2,586 ha Kontagora fire, 18 December 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,218 ha in total · 21 days
  22. 6,103 ha Mariga fire, 10 December 2023 3.3% of the municipality · 15,898 ha in total · 27 days
  23. 3,687 ha Kontagora fire, December 2022 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 5,684 ha in total · 21 days
  24. 245 ha Mariga fire, 22 December 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 2,624 ha in total · 18 days
  25. 938 ha Mariga fire, November 2022 0.5% of the municipality · 4,906 ha in total · 24 days
  26. 2,097 ha Kontagora fire, January 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,082 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 546 ha Kontagora fire, 23 December 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,427 ha in total · 18 days
  28. 4,063 ha Kontagora fire, 23 December 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 4,038 ha in total · 12 days
  29. 2,201 ha Kontagora fire, 16 December 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,370 ha in total · 12 days
  30. 2,122 ha Kontagora fire, 4 December 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,722 ha in total · 8 days
  31. 11,614 ha Mariga fire, December 2020 6.3% of the municipality · 26,828 ha in total · 30 days
  32. 475 ha Mariga fire, 12 January 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 5,320 ha in total · 21 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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