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Wildfires in Lokoja

Lokoja, Nigeria, has had 8 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 27,693 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.6% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).

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. Sun 25 Low 35° · 41 % · 21 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 35° · 46 % · 40 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 62 % · 35 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 55 % · 18 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 34° · 50 % · 21 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Low 34° · 47 % · 21 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 34° · 49 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 34° · 52 % · 21 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

27,693
hectares burned
8.6 %
of its area
8
fires
3,208
km²

How many times has Lokoja burned?

Lokoja has burned 8 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Lokoja fire, 20 January 2026, with 2,261 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 27,693 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 24,265 hectares, 7.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 2× 26
8
fires
4
years with fire
27,693
cumulative ha
24,265
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 Lokoja

  1. 2,261 ha Lokoja fire, 20 January 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,247 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 2,056 ha Lokoja fire, 20 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,044 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 14,644 ha Kabba/Bunu fire, December 2025 4.6% of the municipality · 35,665 ha in total · 37 days
  4. 2,938 ha Lokoja fire, 30 December 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,916 ha in total · 27 days
  5. 1,658 ha Pategi fire, 20 January 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 2,194 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 2,914 ha Lokoja fire, January 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,892 ha in total · 20 days
  7. 561 ha Kabba/Bunu fire, 14 January 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 2,226 ha in total · 22 days
  8. 661 ha Kabba/Bunu fire, 13 January 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 2,104 ha in total · 19 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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