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Wildfires in Lapai

Lapai, Nigeria, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 12,874 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.2% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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 Low 34° · 51 % · 19 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Low 34° · 50 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Low 33° · 52 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Low 33° · 48 % · 17 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 33° · 56 % · 20 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 69 % · 31 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 33° · 52 % · 30 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Low 34° · 48 % · 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

12,874
hectares burned
4.2 %
of its area
3
fires
3,038
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Lapai

  1. 6,738 ha Lapai fire, January 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 7,360 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 2,802 ha Lapai fire, January 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,784 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 3,334 ha Lapai fire, February 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,313 ha in total · 5 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).