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Wildfires in Kuje

Kuje, Nigeria, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 6,560 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.5% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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. Wed 28 Low 33° · 52 % · 20 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 34° · 39 % · 22 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 32° · 55 % · 19 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Low 31° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Low 32° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Low 33° · 53 % · 20 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Low 33° · 51 % · 23 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Low 33° · 54 % · 20 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

6,560
hectares burned
3.5 %
of its area
4
fires
1,900
km²

How many times has Kuje burned?

Kuje has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2020 and 2026. The most recent: Kuje fire, January 2026, with 3,058 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,560 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,103 hectares, 3.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
6,560
cumulative ha
6,103
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 Kuje

  1. 3,058 ha Kuje fire, January 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,039 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 35 ha Kwali fire, 3 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,614 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 3,000 ha Kuje fire, January 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,982 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 467 ha Kwali fire, January 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 2,517 ha in total · 22 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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