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Wildfires in Owan West

Owan West, Nigeria, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 10,307 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 14% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

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. Tue 3 Low 32° · 57 % · 36 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 31° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Low 32° · 60 % · 25 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Low 32° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Low 32° · 56 % · 22 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Low 32° · 56 % · 28 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Low 32° · 54 % · 39 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 32° · 62 % · 39 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

10,307
hectares burned
14 %
of its area
6
fires
736
km²

How many times has Owan West burned?

Owan West has burned 6 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023. The most recent: Esan West fire, 11 February 2023, with 707 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 10,307 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 6,132 hectares, 8.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
6
fires
5
years with fire
10,307
cumulative ha
6,132
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 Owan West

  1. 707 ha Esan West fire, 11 February 2023 1.0% of the municipality · 3,064 ha in total · 11 days
  2. 2,018 ha Uhunmwonde fire, February 2021 2.7% of the municipality · 5,728 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 3,001 ha Owan West fire, February 2020 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 4,817 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 1,417 ha Owan West fire, January 2020 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 2,160 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 1,901 ha Owan West fire, February 2019 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 3,039 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 1,262 ha Uhunmwonde fire, 23 January 2016 1.7% of the municipality · 5,133 ha in total · 18 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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