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Wildfires in Kukawa

Kukawa, Nigeria, has had 47 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 232,455 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 48% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 57).

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 22 Extreme 39° · 9 % · 38 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Extreme 38° · 11 % · 41 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Extreme 37° · 8 % · 35 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Extreme 38° · 7 % · 34 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Extreme 38° · 8 % · 21 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Extreme 39° · 9 % · 32 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Extreme 38° · 12 % · 41 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Extreme 38° · 12 % · 47 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

232,455
hectares burned
48 %
of its area
47
fires
4,868
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Kukawa

  1. 2,768 ha Kukawa fire, 20 October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,763 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 14,776 ha Kukawa fire, 17 October 2026 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 14,695 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,131 ha Kukawa fire, 9 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,120 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 28,106 ha Kukawa fire, 1 October 2026 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 27,924 ha in total · 23 days
  5. 38,642 ha Kukawa fire, 28 September 2026 where it started 7.9% of the municipality · 47,228 ha in total · 26 days
  6. 2,960 ha Kukawa fire, 4 September 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,941 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 2,983 ha Kukawa fire, 29 August 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,963 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 2,312 ha Kukawa fire, August 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,297 ha in total · 8 days
  9. 2,270 ha Kukawa fire, November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,258 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 2,542 ha Kukawa fire, 18 October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,526 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 7,806 ha Kukawa fire, 15 October 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 7,762 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 3,410 ha Kukawa fire, 30 October 2024 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,391 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 2,168 ha Kukawa fire, 30 October 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,156 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 1,896 ha Kukawa fire, 23 October 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,075 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 2,344 ha Kukawa fire, December 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,332 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 4,036 ha Kukawa fire, November 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,012 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 2,796 ha Kukawa fire, March 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,514 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 2,743 ha Kukawa fire, 11 October 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,723 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 978 ha Abadam fire, 8 October 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 43,877 ha in total · 36 days
  20. 3,221 ha Kukawa fire, 8 October 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,199 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 663 ha Guzamala fire, 21 October 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 3,620 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 2,044 ha Kukawa fire, February 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,033 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 2,234 ha Kukawa fire, November 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,952 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 1,569 ha Kukawa fire, 30 October 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,972 ha in total · 8 days
  25. 2,576 ha Kukawa fire, 19 October 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,562 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 2,508 ha Kukawa fire, 18 October 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,217 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 2,178 ha Monguno fire, October 2018 0.4% of the municipality · 3,627 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 11,189 ha Kukawa fire, 13 October 2018 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 12,874 ha in total · 14 days
  29. 7,013 ha Kukawa fire, 12 October 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 32,284 ha in total · 14 days
  30. 850 ha Kukawa fire, November 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,205 ha in total · 12 days
  31. 2,033 ha Kukawa fire, 28 October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,020 ha in total · 6 days
  32. 508 ha Kukawa fire, 10 October 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 4,178 ha in total · 1 day
  33. 1,041 ha Monguno fire, 10 October 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 14,869 ha in total · 10 days
  34. 8,111 ha Abadam fire, October 2017 1.7% of the municipality · 39,930 ha in total · 30 days
  35. 16,218 ha Kukawa fire, 5 October 2017 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 16,112 ha in total · 30 days
  36. 1,665 ha Kukawa fire, 5 October 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,363 ha in total · 7 days
  37. 1,444 ha Kukawa fire, September 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,137 ha in total · 5 days
  38. 2,373 ha Kukawa fire, February 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,361 ha in total · 5 days
  39. 2,576 ha Kukawa fire, November 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,561 ha in total · 5 days
  40. 8,677 ha Abadam fire, October 2016 1.8% of the municipality · 31,926 ha in total · 34 days
  41. 2,141 ha Kukawa fire, 14 October 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,978 ha in total · 8 days
  42. 5,522 ha Kukawa fire, 9 October 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 5,489 ha in total · 2 days
  43. 4,276 ha Kukawa fire, 7 October 2016 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,248 ha in total · 12 days
  44. 2,019 ha Kukawa fire, 3 October 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,006 ha in total · 3 days
  45. 5,119 ha Kukawa fire, 30 September 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,365 ha in total · 8 days
  46. 2,408 ha Kukawa fire, 29 September 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,395 ha in total · 3 days
  47. 2,606 ha Kukawa fire, August 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,590 ha in total · 3 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).