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Wildfires in Lau

Lau, Nigeria, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 374 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.2% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 22).

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. Fri 23 High 37° · 35 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 36° · 33 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 36° · 23 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 36° · 29 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 35° · 38 % · 37 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 35° · 37 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 38° · 17 % · 40 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 38° · 20 % · 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

374
hectares burned
0.2 %
of its area
2
fires
1,536
km²

How many times has Lau burned?

Lau has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2018 and 2020. The most recent: Yorro fire, December 2020, with 33 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 374 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 351 hectares, 0.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
374
cumulative ha
351
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 Lau

  1. 33 ha Yorro fire, December 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,131 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 342 ha Yorro fire, December 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 5,457 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).

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