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Wildfires in Kwande

Kwande, Nigeria, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 6,783 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 Very low 31° · 58 % · 25 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 31° · 64 % · 24 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 70 % · 26 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 63 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 64 % · 25 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 62 % · 25 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 67 % · 26 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 62 % · 25 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

6,783
hectares burned
2.6 %
of its area
2
fires
2,587
km²

How many times has Kwande burned?

Kwande has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2025. The most recent: Kwande fire, December 2025, with 3,311 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
6,783
cumulative ha
29 Dec 2025
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 Kwande

  1. 3,311 ha Kwande fire, December 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,289 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 3,472 ha Kwande fire, February 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,451 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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