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Wildfires in Nganzai

Nganzai, Nigeria, has had 28 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 75,614 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 35% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 47).

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 24 Very high 36° · 12 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very high 36° · 10 % · 31 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very high 36° · 14 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very high 37° · 14 % · 22 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very high 38° · 13 % · 33 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Extreme 37° · 15 % · 42 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very high 38° · 14 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very high 38° · 15 % · 32 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

75,614
hectares burned
35 %
of its area
28
fires
2,132
km²

How many times has Nganzai burned?

Nganzai has burned 28 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Nganzai fire, 18 October 2026, with 5,688 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 75,614 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 54,594 hectares, 26 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 9× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 2× 26
28
fires
8
years with fire
75,614
cumulative ha
54,594
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 Nganzai

  1. 5,688 ha Nganzai fire, 18 October 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 5,655 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 651 ha Nganzai fire, 14 October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 7,602 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 2,554 ha Nganzai fire, November 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,256 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2,184 ha Monguno fire, 28 October 2025 1.0% of the municipality · 5,361 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 11,658 ha Nganzai fire, 17 October 2025 where it started 5.5% of the municipality · 14,575 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 5,658 ha Nganzai fire, 17 October 2025 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 6,179 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 2,129 ha Nganzai fire, 24 October 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,116 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,327 ha Monguno fire, October 2023 0.6% of the municipality · 4,131 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,033 ha Nganzai fire, 13 October 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,649 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 2,145 ha Nganzai fire, December 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,139 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 2,407 ha Nganzai fire, 10 November 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,470 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 2,253 ha Nganzai fire, 6 November 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,241 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 1,144 ha Monguno fire, 6 November 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 3,698 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 2,307 ha Nganzai fire, 3 November 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,294 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 5,084 ha Nganzai fire, 1 November 2020 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 7,254 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 2,249 ha Nganzai fire, 1 November 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,237 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 2,348 ha Nganzai fire, October 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,782 ha in total · 4 days
  18. 561 ha Guzamala fire, 21 October 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 2,151 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 1,127 ha Nganzai fire, November 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,088 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 3,488 ha Nganzai fire, 21 October 2018 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 3,469 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 2,877 ha Nganzai fire, 19 October 2018 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,857 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 1,667 ha Nganzai fire, 18 October 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,025 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 549 ha Jere fire, October 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 3,178 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 1,151 ha Monguno fire, 19 October 2017 0.5% of the municipality · 3,053 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 12 ha Jere fire, January 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,171 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 7,478 ha Nganzai fire, 28 November 2016 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 7,639 ha in total · 11 days
  27. 2,136 ha Nganzai fire, 12 November 2016 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,123 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 749 ha Guzamala fire, November 2016 0.4% 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).

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