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Wildfires in Magama

Magama, Nigeria, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 14,397 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.9% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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. Tue 27 Moderate 34° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Moderate 34° · 39 % · 19 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 36 % · 18 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 36 % · 14 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Moderate 33° · 49 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Moderate 35° · 35 % · 18 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Moderate 35° · 32 % · 19 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Moderate 34° · 48 % · 22 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

14,397
hectares burned
3.9 %
of its area
4
fires
3,665
km²

How many times has Magama burned?

Magama has burned 4 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Magama fire, January 2026, with 3,759 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,397 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,857 hectares, 1.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
3
years with fire
14,397
cumulative ha
6,857
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 Magama

  1. 3,759 ha Magama fire, January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,733 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 3,303 ha Magama fire, January 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,293 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 2,745 ha Magama fire, December 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,741 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 4,589 ha Magama fire, January 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,557 ha in total · 15 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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