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Wildfires in Lafia

Lafia, Nigeria, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 4,433 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.6% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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 33° · 46 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 32° · 52 % · 19 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 57 % · 20 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 60 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 32° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 31° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 32° · 55 % · 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

4,433
hectares burned
1.6 %
of its area
3
fires
2,751
km²

How many times has Lafia burned?

Lafia has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2018 and 2026. The most recent: Bokkos fire, 3 January 2026, with 3,139 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
3
fires
2
years with fire
4,433
cumulative ha
3 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 Lafia

  1. 3,139 ha Bokkos fire, 3 January 2026 1.1% of the municipality · 3,467 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 1,253 ha Wamba fire, January 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 2,154 ha in total · 5 days
  3. 41 ha Obi fire, January 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,886 ha in total · 6 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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