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Wildfires in Mashegu

Mashegu, Nigeria, has had 42 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 200,229 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 23% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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 Moderate 35° · 28 % · 14 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 46 % · 19 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 31° · 65 % · 21 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 33° · 45 % · 17 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 40 % · 16 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 41 % · 19 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Moderate 33° · 51 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Moderate 34° · 51 % · 21 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

200,229
hectares burned
23 %
of its area
42
fires
8,785
km²

How many times has Mashegu burned?

Mashegu has burned 42 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mashegu fire, 3 January 2026, with 3,428 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 6× 21
  7. 7× 22
  8. 7× 23
  9.   24
  10. 11× 25
  11. 2× 26
42
fires
9
years with fire
200,229
cumulative ha
3 Jan 2026
most recent

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 Mashegu

  1. 3,428 ha Mashegu fire, 3 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,407 ha in total · 22 days
  2. 5,665 ha Mashegu fire, 3 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,623 ha in total · 20 days
  3. 2,484 ha Mashegu fire, 28 December 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,468 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 7,404 ha Mashegu fire, 28 December 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 7,357 ha in total · 22 days
  5. 8,050 ha Mashegu fire, 25 December 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 7,999 ha in total · 23 days
  6. 41,603 ha Mashegu fire, 22 December 2025 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 41,341 ha in total · 42 days
  7. 305 ha Kontagora fire, 18 December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 94,992 ha in total · 46 days
  8. 4,421 ha Mashegu fire, 18 December 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,392 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 2,235 ha Mashegu fire, 10 December 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,221 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 2,360 ha Mashegu fire, 26 January 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,346 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 2,046 ha Mashegu fire, 8 January 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,031 ha in total · 22 days
  12. 15,594 ha Mashegu fire, 7 January 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 15,497 ha in total · 30 days
  13. 2,701 ha Mashegu fire, 1 January 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,683 ha in total · 24 days
  14. 2,256 ha Mashegu fire, 28 December 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,242 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 2,430 ha Mashegu fire, 27 December 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,416 ha in total · 25 days
  16. 2,935 ha Mashegu fire, 25 December 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,941 ha in total · 22 days
  17. 2,162 ha Mashegu fire, 19 December 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,147 ha in total · 20 days
  18. 27 ha Mariga fire, 19 December 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,902 ha in total · 20 days
  19. 4,317 ha Mashegu fire, 19 December 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,286 ha in total · 18 days
  20. 2,569 ha Mashegu fire, January 2023 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,592 ha in total · 18 days
  21. 2,519 ha Mashegu fire, 28 December 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,503 ha in total · 9 days
  22. 2,268 ha Mashegu fire, 26 December 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,251 ha in total · 9 days
  23. 2,271 ha Mashegu fire, 14 January 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,258 ha in total · 8 days
  24. 2,107 ha Mashegu fire, 12 January 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,092 ha in total · 16 days
  25. 2,932 ha Mashegu fire, 8 January 2022 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,914 ha in total · 18 days
  26. 4,162 ha Mashegu fire, 7 January 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,136 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 2,116 ha Mashegu fire, 1 January 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,101 ha in total · 17 days
  28. 4,358 ha Mashegu fire, 12 January 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,327 ha in total · 19 days
  29. 8,662 ha Mashegu fire, 9 January 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 8,608 ha in total · 20 days
  30. 2,431 ha Mashegu fire, 7 January 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,415 ha in total · 15 days
  31. 3,667 ha Mashegu fire, 6 January 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,644 ha in total · 18 days
  32. 9,467 ha Mashegu fire, 5 January 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 9,405 ha in total · 27 days
  33. 4,500 ha Mashegu fire, 2 January 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,471 ha in total · 15 days
  34. 4,839 ha Mashegu fire, December 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,809 ha in total · 21 days
  35. 9,661 ha Mashegu fire, 16 January 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 9,592 ha in total · 24 days
  36. 2,459 ha Mashegu fire, 14 January 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,444 ha in total · 19 days
  37. 4,597 ha Mashegu fire, January 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,569 ha in total · 12 days
  38. 2,066 ha Mashegu fire, March 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,051 ha in total · 2 days
  39. 2,682 ha Mashegu fire, 27 December 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,664 ha in total · 9 days
  40. 2,537 ha Mashegu fire, 23 December 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,520 ha in total · 6 days
  41. 2,502 ha Mashegu fire, 21 December 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,487 ha in total · 9 days
  42. 2,435 ha Mashegu fire, January 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,420 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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