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Wildfires in Numan

Numan, Nigeria, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 14,609 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 18% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 26).

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 High 37° · 20 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 37° · 23 % · 24 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 36° · 28 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 35° · 44 % · 35 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 36° · 43 % · 29 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 37° · 23 % · 36 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 37° · 19 % · 31 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 37° · 31 % · 34 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

14,609
hectares burned
18 %
of its area
9
fires
814
km²

How many times has Numan burned?

Numan has burned 9 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Demsa fire, January 2023, with 1,063 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 14,609 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,026 hectares, 11 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
9
fires
7
years with fire
14,609
cumulative ha
9,026
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 Numan

  1. 1,063 ha Demsa fire, January 2023 1.3% of the municipality · 2,310 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 757 ha Demsa fire, January 2022 0.9% of the municipality · 3,318 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 3,633 ha Demsa fire, January 2021 4.5% of the municipality · 5,013 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 1,149 ha Demsa fire, February 2020 1.4% of the municipality · 2,465 ha in total · 7 days
  5. 1,844 ha Numan fire, December 2019 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,188 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 1,127 ha Demsa fire, 25 January 2019 1.4% of the municipality · 4,091 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 1,042 ha Numan fire, January 2019 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,006 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 3,015 ha Numan fire, February 2017 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 3,831 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 978 ha Demsa fire, February 2016 1.2% of the municipality · 2,007 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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