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Wildfires in Pankshin

Pankshin, Nigeria, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,298 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.9% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 16).

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 Moderate 31° · 34 % · 22 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 31° · 27 % · 20 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Moderate 30° · 31 % · 21 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Moderate 31° · 26 % · 31 km/h
  5. Thu 29 High 31° · 24 % · 48 km/h
  6. Fri 30 High 32° · 23 % · 36 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Moderate 32° · 21 % · 29 km/h
  8. Sun 1 High 33° · 24 % · 34 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

1,298
hectares burned
0.9 %
of its area
3
fires
1,373
km²

How many times has Pankshin burned?

Pankshin has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2016 and 2020. The most recent: Mikang fire, January 2020, with 324 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,298 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,082 hectares, 0.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
1,298
cumulative ha
1,082
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 Pankshin

  1. 324 ha Mikang fire, January 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 2,538 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 357 ha Mikang fire, December 2016 0.3% of the municipality · 2,664 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 618 ha Mikang fire, January 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 3,805 ha in total · 16 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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