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Wildfires in Ngala

Ngala, Nigeria, has had 44 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 101,147 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 50% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 44).

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 37° · 14 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 36° · 12 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 36° · 11 % · 27 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 37° · 12 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 37° · 11 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 38° · 15 % · 33 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 38° · 15 % · 44 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 37° · 17 % · 31 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

101,147
hectares burned
50 %
of its area
44
fires
2,013
km²

How many times has Ngala burned?

Ngala has burned 44 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Marte fire, March 2026, with 1,561 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 101,147 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 68,174 hectares, 34 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 4× 20
  6. 8× 21
  7.   22
  8. 11× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 7× 25
  11. 1× 26
44
fires
10
years with fire
101,147
cumulative ha
68,174
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 Ngala

  1. 1,561 ha Marte fire, March 2026 0.8% of the municipality · 5,474 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 274 ha Marte fire, December 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,478 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,164 ha Kala Balge fire, 3 November 2025 1.1% of the municipality · 3,200 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 472 ha Marte fire, 1 November 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 2,316 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,253 ha Kala Balge fire, 31 October 2025 0.6% of the municipality · 2,502 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 2,054 ha Ngala fire, October 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,042 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 924 ha Ngala fire, March 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,169 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 1,931 ha Ngala fire, February 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,154 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 3,491 ha Ngala fire, January 2024 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,485 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 2,052 ha Ngala fire, December 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,075 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 2,557 ha Ngala fire, 26 October 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,541 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 500 ha Dikwa fire, 23 October 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 2,560 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 2,305 ha Ngala fire, 20 October 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,289 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 2,242 ha Ngala fire, 18 October 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,227 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 313 ha Marte fire, 9 October 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 3,056 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 2,449 ha Ngala fire, 13 March 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,436 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 2,792 ha Ngala fire, 13 March 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,888 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 2,226 ha Ngala fire, 12 March 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,214 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 2,686 ha Marte fire, February 2023 1.3% of the municipality · 4,374 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 4,146 ha Ngala fire, January 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 4,182 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 3,267 ha Ngala fire, 28 November 2021 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,249 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 2,032 ha Ngala fire, 9 November 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,019 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 3,301 ha Ngala fire, 9 November 2021 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,282 ha in total · 4 days
  24. 2,975 ha Ngala fire, 2 November 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,959 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 2,234 ha Ngala fire, 27 October 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,910 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 9,108 ha Ngala fire, 22 October 2021 where it started 4.5% of the municipality · 9,060 ha in total · 9 days
  27. 538 ha Marte fire, March 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 6,070 ha in total · 4 days
  28. 3,529 ha Dikwa fire, February 2021 1.8% of the municipality · 6,648 ha in total · 12 days
  29. 1,719 ha Ngala fire, 24 December 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,256 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 2,343 ha Ngala fire, 12 December 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,147 ha in total · 3 days
  31. 2,550 ha Ngala fire, 3 April 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,852 ha in total · 2 days
  32. 2,204 ha Ngala fire, 2 April 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,193 ha in total · 2 days
  33. 2,032 ha Ngala fire, May 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,021 ha in total · 2 days
  34. 1,950 ha Dikwa fire, April 2019 1.0% of the municipality · 2,512 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 1,270 ha Ngala fire, February 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,288 ha in total · 3 days
  36. 2,046 ha Ngala fire, January 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,035 ha in total · 3 days
  37. 259 ha Kala Balge fire, November 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 2,240 ha in total · 1 day
  38. 3,438 ha Ngala fire, 9 November 2017 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,417 ha in total · 2 days
  39. 2,161 ha Ngala fire, 2 November 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,390 ha in total · 4 days
  40. 2,275 ha Ngala fire, 31 October 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,262 ha in total · 5 days
  41. 6,774 ha Ngala fire, 21 October 2017 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 6,738 ha in total · 10 days
  42. 2,053 ha Ngala fire, March 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,089 ha in total · 5 days
  43. 503 ha Dikwa fire, February 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 4,055 ha in total · 3 days
  44. 2,192 ha Ngala fire, November 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,178 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).

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