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Wildfires in Ori Ire

Ori Ire, Nigeria, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 7,230 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.5% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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. Sat 14 Low 32° · 44 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Moderate 33° · 29 % · 27 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Moderate 34° · 30 % · 17 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Moderate 33° · 38 % · 21 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Moderate 34° · 34 % · 25 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Moderate 34° · 34 % · 19 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Moderate 35° · 31 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Moderate 34° · 39 % · 20 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Ori Ire: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

7,230
hectares burned
3.5 %
of its area
4
fires
2,088
km²

How many times has Ori Ire burned?

Ori Ire has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Ori Ire fire, January 2026, with 5,311 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 3× 26
4
fires
2
years with fire
7,230
cumulative ha
18 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 Ori Ire

  1. 5,311 ha Ori Ire fire, January 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 7,256 ha in total · 18 days
  2. 100 ha Olorunsogo fire, 13 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 8,894 ha in total · 17 days
  3. 112 ha Atisbo fire, 12 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,562 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 1,708 ha Ori Ire fire, February 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,623 ha in total · 7 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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