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Wildfires in Mokwa

Mokwa, Nigeria, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 17,290 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.4% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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. Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 21 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Moderate 35° · 41 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Moderate 34° · 46 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Moderate 35° · 43 % · 19 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Moderate 35° · 45 % · 21 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Moderate 36° · 40 % · 22 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Moderate 36° · 41 % · 25 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Moderate 36° · 41 % · 19 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

17,290
hectares burned
4.4 %
of its area
9
fires
3,912
km²

How many times has Mokwa burned?

Mokwa has burned 9 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Mokwa fire, 6 January 2026, with 2,034 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 17,290 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 16,090 hectares, 4.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
9
fires
8
years with fire
17,290
cumulative ha
16,090
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 Mokwa

  1. 2,034 ha Mokwa fire, 6 January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,022 ha in total · 26 days
  2. 2,298 ha Mokwa fire, 5 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,284 ha in total · 14 days
  3. 2,755 ha Mokwa fire, December 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,737 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 554 ha Lavun fire, 5 January 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 4,484 ha in total · 27 days
  5. 949 ha Lavun fire, January 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 6,074 ha in total · 23 days
  6. 2,442 ha Mokwa fire, January 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,049 ha in total · 11 days
  7. 2,884 ha Mokwa fire, January 2018 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,865 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 1,485 ha Lavun fire, January 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 3,975 ha in total · 15 days
  9. 1,888 ha Mokwa fire, January 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,325 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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