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Wildfires in Pategi

Pategi, Nigeria, has had 16 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 67,855 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 17).

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 Moderate 36° · 36 % · 23 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Moderate 36° · 41 % · 26 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 47 % · 24 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Moderate 35° · 42 % · 22 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Moderate 36° · 38 % · 22 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Moderate 36° · 39 % · 19 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Moderate 36° · 42 % · 35 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Moderate 35° · 44 % · 38 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

67,855
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
16
fires
3,095
km²

How many times has Pategi burned?

Pategi has burned 16 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Pategi fire, 22 January 2026, with 3,020 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 67,855 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 61,077 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 4× 26
16
fires
6
years with fire
67,855
cumulative ha
61,077
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 Pategi

  1. 3,020 ha Pategi fire, 22 January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,001 ha in total · 14 days
  2. 2,658 ha Pategi fire, 13 January 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,641 ha in total · 15 days
  3. 2,866 ha Pategi fire, 9 January 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,848 ha in total · 27 days
  4. 35,310 ha Pategi fire, 5 January 2026 where it started 11% of the municipality · 39,561 ha in total · 27 days
  5. 2,024 ha Pategi fire, 18 January 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,012 ha in total · 22 days
  6. 2,056 ha Pategi fire, 9 January 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,044 ha in total · 29 days
  7. 2,167 ha Pategi fire, January 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,152 ha in total · 16 days
  8. 2,716 ha Pategi fire, 12 January 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,750 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 2,822 ha Pategi fire, 4 January 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,803 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 1,901 ha Pategi fire, 1 January 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,096 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1,402 ha Pategi fire, 21 January 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,552 ha in total · 12 days
  12. 551 ha Pategi fire, 20 January 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,194 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 0 ha Lokoja fire, January 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 2,892 ha in total · 20 days
  14. 2,277 ha Pategi fire, 16 January 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,262 ha in total · 20 days
  15. 2,174 ha Pategi fire, 16 January 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,162 ha in total · 18 days
  16. 3,911 ha Pategi fire, 13 January 2016 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,887 ha in total · 24 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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