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Wildfires in Lavun

Lavun, Nigeria, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 22,153 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.0% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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 Moderate 35° · 37 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 36° · 27 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 35° · 43 % · 20 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 33° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 46 % · 28 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 36° · 36 % · 25 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 35° · 47 % · 20 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

22,153
hectares burned
6.0 %
of its area
8
fires
3,706
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Lavun

  1. 4,443 ha Lavun fire, 17 January 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,410 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 3,958 ha Lavun fire, 12 January 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,484 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 5,163 ha Lavun fire, January 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 6,074 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 198 ha Mokwa fire, January 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 3,049 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 2,319 ha Lavun fire, February 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,302 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 2,516 ha Lavun fire, January 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,975 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,098 ha Lavun fire, January 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,082 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 1,458 ha Mokwa fire, January 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 3,325 ha in total · 7 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).