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Wildfires in Kwali

Kwali, Nigeria, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 6,721 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.4% 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 34° · 49 % · 17 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 34° · 51 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 62 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 66 % · 17 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 56 % · 20 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 33° · 50 % · 21 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 32° · 54 % · 19 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 32° · 60 % · 18 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

6,721
hectares burned
5.4 %
of its area
3
fires
1,249
km²

How many times has Kwali burned?

Kwali has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2026. The most recent: Kwali fire, 18 January 2026, with 2,059 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
3
fires
2
years with fire
6,721
cumulative ha
18 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 Kwali

  1. 2,059 ha Kwali fire, 18 January 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,047 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 2,596 ha Kwali fire, 3 January 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 2,614 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 2,066 ha Kwali fire, January 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,517 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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