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Wildfires in Okpokwu

Okpokwu, Nigeria, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 9,307 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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 Very low 32° · 67 % · 25 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 33° · 54 % · 23 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 66 % · 23 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 61 % · 20 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Low 32° · 53 % · 22 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Low 33° · 53 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Low 33° · 55 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Low 32° · 57 % · 22 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

9,307
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
5
fires
890
km²

How many times has Okpokwu burned?

Okpokwu has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2022. The most recent: Okpokwu fire, December 2022, with 2,131 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,307 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,841 hectares, 7.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
5
fires
4
years with fire
9,307
cumulative ha
6,841
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 Okpokwu

  1. 2,131 ha Okpokwu fire, December 2022 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 3,519 ha in total · 19 days
  2. 1,796 ha Ado fire, January 2018 2.0% of the municipality · 2,061 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,320 ha Okpokwu fire, December 2017 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 2,305 ha in total · 14 days
  4. 875 ha Oturkpo fire, December 2017 1.0% of the municipality · 2,025 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 2,186 ha Okpokwu fire, December 2016 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,336 ha in total · 23 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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