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Wildfires in Kurmi

Kurmi, Nigeria, has had 37 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 106,823 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 24% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).

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 Very low 32° · 56 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 33° · 52 % · 19 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 62 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 71 % · 16 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 29° · 71 % · 21 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 32° · 55 % · 29 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 32° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 31° · 63 % · 24 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

106,823
hectares burned
24 %
of its area
37
fires
4,515
km²

How many times has Kurmi burned?

Kurmi has burned 37 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kurmi fire, 18 March 2026, with 327 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 106,823 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 74,301 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 10× 26
37
fires
10
years with fire
106,823
cumulative ha
74,301
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 Kurmi

  1. 327 ha Kurmi fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,035 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,472 ha Kurmi fire, 17 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,456 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 2,489 ha Kurmi fire, 23 February 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,473 ha in total · 15 days
  4. 958 ha Gashaka fire, February 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,387 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 3,223 ha Kurmi fire, 21 February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,202 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 4,457 ha Kurmi fire, 19 February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,778 ha in total · 14 days
  7. 14,007 ha Kurmi fire, 17 February 2026 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 14,296 ha in total · 22 days
  8. 2,433 ha Kurmi fire, January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,418 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 1,103 ha Ussa fire, 5 January 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,362 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 6,717 ha Donga fire, 1 January 2026 1.5% of the municipality · 57,756 ha in total · 31 days
  11. 965 ha Gashaka fire, February 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 2,908 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 8,313 ha Kurmi fire, January 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 8,262 ha in total · 18 days
  13. 1,521 ha Donga fire, 21 January 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 3,191 ha in total · 7 days
  14. 2,177 ha Kurmi fire, March 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,162 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 5,955 ha Kurmi fire, February 2024 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 5,917 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 2,506 ha Kurmi fire, March 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,491 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 2,913 ha Kurmi fire, 28 February 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,893 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 2,195 ha Kurmi fire, 11 February 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,181 ha in total · 8 days
  19. 113 ha Donga fire, March 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,121 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 2,542 ha Kurmi fire, February 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,525 ha in total · 10 days
  21. 750 ha Donga fire, January 2022 0.2% of the municipality · 2,050 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 2,051 ha Kurmi fire, 22 February 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,038 ha in total · 16 days
  23. 2,057 ha Kurmi fire, 6 February 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,044 ha in total · 10 days
  24. 1,762 ha Kurmi fire, 18 January 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,426 ha in total · 10 days
  25. 309 ha Kurmi fire, 8 January 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,795 ha in total · 8 days
  26. 4,179 ha Kurmi fire, March 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,153 ha in total · 12 days
  27. 2,022 ha Kurmi fire, 20 February 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,009 ha in total · 9 days
  28. 5,234 ha Kurmi fire, 16 February 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,202 ha in total · 15 days
  29. 751 ha Donga fire, 30 January 2019 0.2% of the municipality · 2,098 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 430 ha Ussa fire, 8 January 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 2,822 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 2,171 ha Kurmi fire, January 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,157 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 2,863 ha Kurmi fire, March 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,845 ha in total · 14 days
  33. 2,704 ha Kurmi fire, 28 February 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,686 ha in total · 5 days
  34. 2,994 ha Kurmi fire, 23 February 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,975 ha in total · 16 days
  35. 2,900 ha Kurmi fire, 21 February 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,882 ha in total · 12 days
  36. 3,181 ha Kurmi fire, 20 February 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,160 ha in total · 6 days
  37. 3,077 ha Kurmi fire, 6 February 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,058 ha in total · 12 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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