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Wildfires in Maradun

Maradun, Nigeria, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 41,111 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 33).

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 High 34° · 17 % · 26 km/h
  2. Mon 26 High 34° · 20 % · 25 km/h
  3. Tue 27 High 33° · 32 % · 20 km/h
  4. Wed 28 High 35° · 22 % · 17 km/h
  5. Thu 29 High 36° · 18 % · 29 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 17 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sat 31 High 36° · 16 % · 28 km/h
  8. Sun 1 High 36° · 16 % · 24 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

41,111
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
16
fires
2,667
km²

How many times has Maradun burned?

Maradun has burned 16 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Kaura Namoda fire, January 2026, with 1,439 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 41,111 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 31,418 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 5× 21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
16
fires
6
years with fire
41,111
cumulative ha
31,418
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 Maradun

  1. 1,439 ha Kaura Namoda fire, January 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 3,577 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 2,569 ha Maradun fire, January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,553 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 2,478 ha Maradun fire, December 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,462 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 2,474 ha Kaura Namoda fire, December 2023 0.9% of the municipality · 3,332 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 4,783 ha Maradun fire, November 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,798 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 515 ha Kaura Namoda fire, December 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 3,403 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 2,437 ha Maradun fire, December 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,527 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 361 ha Rabah fire, 1 December 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 2,150 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 2,833 ha Maradun fire, October 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,817 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 2,872 ha Maradun fire, January 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,857 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 673 ha Kaura Namoda fire, February 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 3,520 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 2,503 ha Maradun fire, January 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,556 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 2,523 ha Maradun fire, 23 December 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,506 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 2,778 ha Maradun fire, 8 December 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,764 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 6,484 ha Maradun fire, 8 December 2019 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 6,446 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 3,388 ha Maradun fire, December 2018 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,368 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).

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