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Wildfires in Marte

Marte, Nigeria, has had 55 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 144,657 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 69% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 45).

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° · 14 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 36° · 12 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 36° · 10 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 37° · 11 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 37° · 12 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 37° · 16 % · 35 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 37° · 16 % · 43 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 37° · 16 % · 36 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

144,657
hectares burned
69 %
of its area
55
fires
2,111
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Marte

  1. 3,812 ha Monguno fire, October 2026 1.8% of the municipality · 4,630 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 0 ha Mafa fire, 16 October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,683 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 1,987 ha Kukawa fire, 28 September 2026 0.9% of the municipality · 47,830 ha in total · 26 days
  4. 3,944 ha Marte fire, March 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 5,474 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 2,842 ha Marte fire, January 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,825 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 2,156 ha Marte fire, December 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,478 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 2,441 ha Marte fire, 9 November 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,532 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 6,355 ha Marte fire, 5 November 2025 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 6,317 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,858 ha Marte fire, 1 November 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,316 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 67 ha Mafa fire, 27 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 7,180 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 6,774 ha Marte fire, 27 October 2025 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 6,736 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 730 ha Monguno fire, 25 October 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 2,494 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 1,634 ha Mafa fire, 24 October 2025 0.8% of the municipality · 3,445 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 1,031 ha Marte fire, 24 October 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,941 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 6,287 ha Ngala fire, March 2025 3.0% of the municipality · 7,169 ha in total · 8 days
  16. 585 ha Mafa fire, 11 November 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 2,748 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 2,350 ha Marte fire, October 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,335 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 35 ha Ngala fire, December 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,075 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 2,761 ha Marte fire, 9 October 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,056 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 2,824 ha Marte fire, 8 October 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,806 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 1,715 ha Marte fire, February 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,374 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 62 ha Ngala fire, January 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 4,182 ha in total · 8 days
  23. 2,481 ha Marte fire, December 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,466 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 1,420 ha Mafa fire, 26 November 2022 0.7% of the municipality · 2,045 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 1,300 ha Mafa fire, 25 November 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 2,169 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 3,820 ha Marte fire, 28 October 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,796 ha in total · 3 days
  27. 1,700 ha Ngala fire, 27 October 2021 0.8% of the municipality · 3,910 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 3,077 ha Marte fire, 24 October 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,060 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 356 ha Mafa fire, 14 October 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 3,333 ha in total · 1 day
  30. 2,619 ha Marte fire, April 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,604 ha in total · 3 days
  31. 5,566 ha Marte fire, March 2021 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 6,070 ha in total · 4 days
  32. 5,063 ha Marte fire, February 2021 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 8,241 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 823 ha Ngala fire, 12 December 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 3,147 ha in total · 3 days
  34. 1,657 ha Marte fire, November 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,105 ha in total · 2 days
  35. 4,140 ha Mafa fire, 3 November 2020 2.0% of the municipality · 7,387 ha in total · 7 days
  36. 6,387 ha Mafa fire, 2 November 2020 3.0% of the municipality · 16,241 ha in total · 18 days
  37. 2,101 ha Marte fire, October 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,087 ha in total · 2 days
  38. 4 ha Mafa fire, March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,518 ha in total · 4 days
  39. 2,069 ha Marte fire, 14 November 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,056 ha in total · 1 day
  40. 2,625 ha Marte fire, 11 November 2019 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,608 ha in total · 2 days
  41. 1,828 ha Marte fire, 22 October 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,084 ha in total · 3 days
  42. 3,598 ha Marte fire, 22 October 2018 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,574 ha in total · 4 days
  43. 1,250 ha Ngala fire, 2 November 2017 0.6% of the municipality · 3,390 ha in total · 4 days
  44. 2,317 ha Marte fire, 22 October 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,367 ha in total · 3 days
  45. 3,474 ha Marte fire, 20 October 2017 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,538 ha in total · 6 days
  46. 1,949 ha Marte fire, 15 October 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,417 ha in total · 3 days
  47. 13,094 ha Marte fire, 13 October 2017 where it started 6.2% of the municipality · 13,232 ha in total · 9 days
  48. 510 ha Monguno fire, 10 October 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 14,869 ha in total · 10 days
  49. 3,063 ha Marte fire, 31 January 2017 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,672 ha in total · 4 days
  50. 2,123 ha Marte fire, 15 January 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,112 ha in total · 2 days
  51. 3,783 ha Marte fire, 13 January 2017 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,763 ha in total · 4 days
  52. 69 ha Mafa fire, 5 November 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,271 ha in total · 4 days
  53. 1,379 ha Marte fire, 5 November 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,101 ha in total · 2 days
  54. 4,587 ha Marte fire, 2 November 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 4,557 ha in total · 4 days
  55. 2,176 ha Marte fire, October 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,165 ha in total · 2 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).