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Wildfires in Mafa

Mafa, Nigeria, has had 60 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 182,988 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 54% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 36).

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 Very high 36° · 18 % · 34 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 34° · 18 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 35° · 16 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 35° · 16 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 36° · 15 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 37° · 16 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 36° · 19 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 18 % · 34 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

182,988
hectares burned
54 %
of its area
60
fires
3,412
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Mafa

  1. 5,642 ha Mafa fire, 16 October 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 5,604 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 7,003 ha Mafa fire, 14 October 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 7,602 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 3,315 ha Mafa fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,145 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 2,374 ha Mafa fire, March 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,361 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 3,788 ha Mafa fire, January 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,764 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 3,516 ha Mafa fire, 29 December 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,492 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 7,771 ha Mafa fire, 27 December 2025 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 7,720 ha in total · 32 days
  8. 3,801 ha Mafa fire, 25 November 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,780 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 105 ha Marte fire, 9 November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,532 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 410 ha Konduga fire, 4 November 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,701 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 1,629 ha Mafa fire, 1 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,001 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 90 ha Konduga fire, 1 November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,925 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 7,162 ha Mafa fire, 27 October 2025 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 7,180 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 2,128 ha Mafa fire, 24 October 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,115 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 1,833 ha Mafa fire, 24 October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,445 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 2,936 ha Marte fire, 24 October 2025 0.9% of the municipality · 3,941 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 2,734 ha Mafa fire, 22 October 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,716 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 491 ha Nganzai fire, 17 October 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 6,179 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 2,102 ha Mafa fire, January 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,088 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 3,003 ha Mafa fire, 16 November 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,984 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 2,181 ha Mafa fire, 11 November 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,748 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 2,011 ha Konduga fire, 5 November 2023 0.6% of the municipality · 9,591 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 2,323 ha Mafa fire, 26 October 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,307 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 9 ha Bama fire, 22 October 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,177 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 2,271 ha Mafa fire, 20 October 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,258 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 9,363 ha Mafa fire, 20 October 2023 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 9,310 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 2,361 ha Mafa fire, 18 October 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,348 ha in total · 3 days
  28. 2,085 ha Mafa fire, 11 February 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,071 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 2,306 ha Mafa fire, 9 February 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,291 ha in total · 9 days
  30. 10,537 ha Mafa fire, January 2023 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 10,469 ha in total · 16 days
  31. 637 ha Mafa fire, 26 November 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,045 ha in total · 4 days
  32. 882 ha Mafa fire, 25 November 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,169 ha in total · 4 days
  33. 2,605 ha Mafa fire, 24 November 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,588 ha in total · 4 days
  34. 4,255 ha Mafa fire, 25 October 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,229 ha in total · 3 days
  35. 2,999 ha Mafa fire, 14 October 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,333 ha in total · 1 day
  36. 3,310 ha Mafa fire, March 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,287 ha in total · 6 days
  37. 1,072 ha Mafa fire, February 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,110 ha in total · 5 days
  38. 7,539 ha Mafa fire, January 2021 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 7,491 ha in total · 11 days
  39. 2,596 ha Mafa fire, December 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,579 ha in total · 4 days
  40. 1,422 ha Mafa fire, 12 November 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,231 ha in total · 2 days
  41. 459 ha Marte fire, November 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 2,105 ha in total · 2 days
  42. 2,336 ha Mafa fire, 3 November 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,320 ha in total · 4 days
  43. 3,291 ha Mafa fire, 3 November 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 7,387 ha in total · 7 days
  44. 9,717 ha Mafa fire, 2 November 2020 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 16,241 ha in total · 18 days
  45. 3,342 ha Mafa fire, October 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,321 ha in total · 4 days
  46. 14 ha Monguno fire, April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,632 ha in total · 6 days
  47. 1,025 ha Mafa fire, March 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,518 ha in total · 4 days
  48. 2,513 ha Mafa fire, November 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,497 ha in total · 4 days
  49. 2,100 ha Mafa fire, March 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,032 ha in total · 6 days
  50. 268 ha Marte fire, 22 October 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 2,084 ha in total · 3 days
  51. 2,179 ha Mafa fire, 30 October 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,317 ha in total · 3 days
  52. 1,489 ha Marte fire, 15 October 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 3,417 ha in total · 3 days
  53. 2,568 ha Mafa fire, 14 October 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,554 ha in total · 2 days
  54. 12,543 ha Mafa fire, February 2017 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 12,460 ha in total · 11 days
  55. 630 ha Marte fire, 31 January 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 3,672 ha in total · 4 days
  56. 4,505 ha Mafa fire, January 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 4,477 ha in total · 7 days
  57. 2,742 ha Mafa fire, December 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,726 ha in total · 4 days
  58. 3,716 ha Mafa fire, 12 November 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,759 ha in total · 6 days
  59. 734 ha Marte fire, 5 November 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 2,101 ha in total · 2 days
  60. 2,218 ha Mafa fire, 5 November 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,271 ha in total · 4 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).