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Wildfires in Mopa-Muro

Mopa-Muro, Nigeria, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 5,991 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.7% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Sat 31 Moderate 34° · 45 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Low 34° · 46 % · 31 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Low 33° · 55 % · 18 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Moderate 35° · 38 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Moderate 33° · 50 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Moderate 34° · 44 % · 25 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Moderate 34° · 43 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Moderate 35° · 41 % · 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

5,991
hectares burned
7.7 %
of its area
3
fires
778
km²

How many times has Mopa-Muro burned?

Mopa-Muro has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2017, 2018 and 2026. The most recent: Mopa-Muro fire, January 2026, with 2,427 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
3
years with fire
5,991
cumulative ha
10 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 Mopa-Muro

  1. 2,427 ha Mopa-Muro fire, January 2026 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 2,701 ha in total · 20 days
  2. 94 ha Kabba/Bunu fire, January 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 2,087 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 3,470 ha Mopa-Muro fire, February 2017 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 3,937 ha in total · 22 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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