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Wildfires in Owo

Owo, Nigeria, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 15,001 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% 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. Fri 23 Very low 32° · 63 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 34° · 55 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 33° · 56 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 32° · 68 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 69 % · 31 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 33° · 55 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 32° · 63 % · 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

15,001
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
7
fires
1,031
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Owo

  1. 55 ha Idanre fire, 13 February 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,750 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 16 ha Idanre fire, 23 January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,135 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 3,404 ha Owo fire, 24 January 2020 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 3,667 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 6 ha Owo fire, 18 January 2020 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 20,771 ha in total · 29 days
  5. 53 ha Idanre fire, February 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 11,751 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 3,853 ha Ose fire, 14 February 2017 3.7% of the municipality · 12,653 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 7,613 ha Idanre fire, 20 January 2016 7.4% of the municipality · 28,739 ha in total · 15 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).