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Wildfires in Ogoja

Ogoja, Nigeria, has had 19 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 53,512 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 58% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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. Thu 22 Very low 31° · 72 % · 24 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 32° · 60 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 63 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 33° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 70 % · 26 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 68 % · 29 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 66 % · 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

53,512
hectares burned
58 %
of its area
19
fires
923
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Ogoja

  1. 1,186 ha Ikom fire, February 2026 1.3% of the municipality · 8,162 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 5,860 ha Ogoja fire, January 2026 where it started 6.4% of the municipality · 5,822 ha in total · 12 days
  3. 2,772 ha Ogoja fire, January 2024 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 2,753 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,753 ha Ikom fire, December 2022 3.0% of the municipality · 2,828 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 2,505 ha Ogoja fire, December 2022 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,489 ha in total · 4 days
  6. 2,526 ha Ogoja fire, January 2022 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 2,510 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 2,646 ha Ogoja fire, 18 January 2021 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 2,629 ha in total · 7 days
  8. 1,952 ha Ikom fire, January 2021 2.1% of the municipality · 3,107 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 2,298 ha Ogoja fire, 17 January 2021 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,283 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 3,359 ha Ogoja fire, 15 January 2021 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 3,337 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 1,431 ha Yala fire, December 2019 1.6% of the municipality · 3,118 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 3,929 ha Ogoja fire, February 2019 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 4,069 ha in total · 12 days
  13. 4,569 ha Ogoja fire, 17 January 2018 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 5,222 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 2,023 ha Ogoja fire, 14 January 2018 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 2,010 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 2,822 ha Ogoja fire, January 2017 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 2,804 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 2,927 ha Ogoja fire, 21 January 2016 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 3,514 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 3,652 ha Ogoja fire, 20 January 2016 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 3,628 ha in total · 11 days
  18. 2,192 ha Ogoja fire, 12 January 2016 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,177 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 2,113 ha Ogoja fire, 1 January 2016 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,115 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).