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Wildfires in Makurdi

Makurdi, Nigeria, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 12,001 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 13% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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 Very low 33° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 33° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Low 34° · 51 % · 21 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Low 32° · 61 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Low 32° · 54 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Low 34° · 49 % · 27 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Low 34° · 48 % · 28 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Low 33° · 60 % · 29 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

12,001
hectares burned
13 %
of its area
4
fires
897
km²

How many times has Makurdi burned?

Makurdi has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2025. The most recent: Gwer East fire, 19 December 2025, with 5,831 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,001 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,822 hectares, 7.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
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  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
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  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
4
fires
4
years with fire
12,001
cumulative ha
6,822
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 Makurdi

  1. 5,831 ha Gwer East fire, 19 December 2025 6.5% of the municipality · 29,870 ha in total · 37 days
  2. 3,132 ha Makurdi fire, January 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,132 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 1,826 ha Gwer East fire, January 2020 2.0% of the municipality · 2,515 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 1,212 ha Gwer West fire, January 2019 1.4% of the municipality · 6,770 ha in total · 8 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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