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Wildfires in Orhionmwon

Orhionmwon, Nigeria, has had 18 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 50,820 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 69 % · 20 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 70 % · 22 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 70 % · 30 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 79 % · 32 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 72 % · 18 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 64 % · 36 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 32° · 67 % · 32 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 68 % · 42 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

50,820
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
18
fires
2,401
km²

How many times has Orhionmwon burned?

Orhionmwon has burned 18 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Orhionmwon fire, 12 April 2026, with 2,059 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 50,820 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 38,316 hectares, 16 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
18
fires
8
years with fire
50,820
cumulative ha
38,316
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 Orhionmwon

  1. 2,059 ha Orhionmwon fire, 12 April 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,045 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 2,292 ha Orhionmwon fire, 12 April 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,277 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,036 ha Orhionmwon fire, 11 April 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,022 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 151 ha Iguegben fire, 4 February 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 3,260 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,334 ha Iguegben fire, 3 February 2024 0.6% of the municipality · 4,597 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 5,284 ha Orhionmwon fire, February 2024 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 5,249 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,260 ha Orhionmwon fire, 12 February 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,245 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 2,610 ha Orhionmwon fire, 11 February 2023 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,593 ha in total · 11 days
  9. 6,400 ha Orhionmwon fire, 10 February 2023 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 6,359 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 9,269 ha Iguegben fire, 5 February 2023 3.9% of the municipality · 44,167 ha in total · 18 days
  11. 19 ha Uhunmwonde fire, March 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 8,316 ha in total · 16 days
  12. 810 ha Esan South-East fire, February 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 3,089 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 4,850 ha Orhionmwon fire, 18 January 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 7,162 ha in total · 29 days
  14. 2,615 ha Orhionmwon fire, 18 January 2020 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,598 ha in total · 13 days
  15. 2,721 ha Orhionmwon fire, April 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,703 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 371 ha Esan South-East fire, 6 February 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 10,256 ha in total · 26 days
  17. 1,264 ha Orhionmwon fire, 23 January 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,195 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 4,476 ha Orhionmwon fire, 21 January 2016 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 5,997 ha in total · 13 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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