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Wildfires in Monguno

Monguno, Nigeria, has had 38 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 84,164 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 36% 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

84,164
hectares burned
36 %
of its area
38
fires
2,314
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Monguno

  1. 848 ha Monguno fire, October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,630 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 7,117 ha Kukawa fire, 28 September 2026 3.1% of the municipality · 47,830 ha in total · 27 days
  3. 1,347 ha Monguno fire, May 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,184 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 720 ha Nganzai fire, November 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 3,256 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 2,120 ha Monguno fire, 29 October 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,108 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 3,208 ha Monguno fire, 28 October 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,361 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 1,777 ha Monguno fire, 25 October 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,494 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 2,941 ha Monguno fire, 21 October 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,924 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 2,214 ha Monguno fire, 18 October 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,202 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 2,999 ha Nganzai fire, 17 October 2025 1.3% of the municipality · 14,575 ha in total · 12 days
  11. 2,828 ha Monguno fire, October 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,131 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 631 ha Nganzai fire, 13 October 2023 0.3% of the municipality · 2,649 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 738 ha Kukawa fire, March 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 3,514 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 1,374 ha Monguno fire, October 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,270 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 1,050 ha Mafa fire, February 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 2,110 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 3,225 ha Marte fire, February 2021 1.4% of the municipality · 8,241 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 2,367 ha Monguno fire, 16 November 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,804 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 823 ha Mafa fire, 12 November 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 2,231 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 78 ha Nganzai fire, 10 November 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,470 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 3,300 ha Monguno fire, 8 November 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,281 ha in total · 3 days
  21. 2,574 ha Monguno fire, 6 November 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,698 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 240 ha Mafa fire, 2 November 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 16,241 ha in total · 18 days
  23. 4,107 ha Monguno fire, October 2020 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 4,081 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 2,632 ha Monguno fire, April 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,632 ha in total · 6 days
  25. 1,504 ha Mafa fire, March 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 2,518 ha in total · 4 days
  26. 1,957 ha Mafa fire, March 2019 0.8% of the municipality · 4,032 ha in total · 6 days
  27. 371 ha Nganzai fire, 18 October 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 2,025 ha in total · 1 day
  28. 1,469 ha Monguno fire, October 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,627 ha in total · 6 days
  29. 3,066 ha Monguno fire, November 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,049 ha in total · 5 days
  30. 2,577 ha Monguno fire, 31 October 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,563 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 6,055 ha Monguno fire, 23 October 2017 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 6,023 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 63 ha Marte fire, 22 October 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,367 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 83 ha Marte fire, 20 October 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,538 ha in total · 6 days
  34. 1,920 ha Monguno fire, 19 October 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,053 ha in total · 4 days
  35. 223 ha Marte fire, 13 October 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 13,232 ha in total · 9 days
  36. 13,411 ha Monguno fire, 10 October 2017 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 14,869 ha in total · 10 days
  37. 204 ha Nganzai fire, 28 November 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 7,639 ha in total · 11 days
  38. 0 ha Guzamala fire, November 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 4,219 ha in total · 3 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).