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Wildfires in Omala

Omala, Nigeria, has had 14 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 33,894 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Fri 23 Low 33° · 50 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 33° · 47 % · 26 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 33° · 52 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 56 % · 29 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 64 % · 48 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 57 % · 32 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 34° · 44 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 32° · 59 % · 30 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

33,894
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
14
fires
1,567
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Omala

  1. 5,809 ha Omala fire, February 2026 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 13,015 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 722 ha Bassa fire, 14 January 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 2,862 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 792 ha Agatu fire, January 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 2,131 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 5,116 ha Omala fire, January 2026 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 5,083 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 1,934 ha Omala fire, January 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 3,061 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 3,207 ha Omala fire, 28 January 2024 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 8,126 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 2,383 ha Omala fire, 11 January 2024 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,368 ha in total · 8 days
  8. 4,631 ha Apa fire, January 2022 3.0% of the municipality · 12,124 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 1,725 ha Agatu fire, 31 January 2021 1.1% of the municipality · 5,806 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 1,312 ha Omala fire, January 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,078 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 79 ha Omala fire, February 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,481 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 3,489 ha Omala fire, February 2019 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 4,801 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 2,647 ha Omala fire, January 2018 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,539 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 47 ha Agatu fire, January 2018 0.0% of the municipality · 2,310 ha in total · 5 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).