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Wildfires in Ofu

Ofu, Nigeria, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 266 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.2% 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. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 57 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 61 % · 21 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 66 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 70 % · 24 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 64 % · 32 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 53 % · 41 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 72 % · 29 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 68 % · 25 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

266
hectares burned
0.2 %
of its area
2
fires
1,564
km²

How many times has Ofu burned?

Ofu has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2017 and 2020. The most recent: Dekina fire, January 2020, with 254 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
266
cumulative ha
23 Jan 2020
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 Ofu

  1. 254 ha Dekina fire, January 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 2,228 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 11 ha Igalamela-Odolu fire, February 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,227 ha in total · 4 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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