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Wildfires in Nasarawa

Nasarawa, Nigeria, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 12,771 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 Low 36° · 36 % · 22 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 34° · 45 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 33° · 56 % · 19 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Low 34° · 52 % · 18 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Low 34° · 53 % · 16 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Low 36° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Low 35° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Low 35° · 50 % · 23 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

12,771
hectares burned
2.4 %
of its area
5
fires
5,242
km²

How many times has Nasarawa burned?

Nasarawa has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Nasarawa fire, February 2023, with 3,167 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 12,771 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,980 hectares, 1.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
12,771
cumulative ha
9,980
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 Nasarawa

  1. 3,167 ha Nasarawa fire, February 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,148 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 2,362 ha Nasarawa fire, January 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,347 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 4,804 ha Nasarawa fire, February 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 5,496 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 302 ha Agatu fire, 10 January 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 2,034 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 2,136 ha Nasarawa fire, February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,123 ha in total · 6 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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