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Wildfires in Obi

Obi, Nigeria, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 2,770 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

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. Sun 1 Low 33° · 55 % · 27 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 34° · 51 % · 22 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 33° · 59 % · 34 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Low 32° · 58 % · 29 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Low 33° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Low 34° · 51 % · 26 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Low 34° · 50 % · 26 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Low 33° · 57 % · 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

2,770
hectares burned
5.4 %
of its area
2
fires
516
km²

How many times has Obi burned?

Obi has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Obi fire, January 2026, with 2,770 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
2,770
cumulative ha
3 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 Obi

  1. 2,770 ha Obi fire, January 2026 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 4,535 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 0 ha Oturkpo fire, January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,055 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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