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Wildfires in Orelope

Orelope, Nigeria, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 2,036 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.9% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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 25 Low 33° · 42 % · 18 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Low 32° · 57 % · 26 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 64 % · 23 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 58 % · 23 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 33° · 39 % · 31 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Low 32° · 47 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 33° · 50 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 34° · 51 % · 26 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

2,036
hectares burned
1.9 %
of its area
3
fires
1,061
km²

How many times has Orelope burned?

Orelope has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2026. The most recent: Olorunsogo fire, 20 January 2026, with 12 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
2
years with fire
2,036
cumulative ha
20 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 Orelope

  1. 12 ha Olorunsogo fire, 20 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 8,894 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 539 ha Olorunsogo fire, January 2016 0.5% of the municipality · 4,265 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 1,484 ha Orelope fire, January 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,352 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).

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