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Wildfires in Rabah

Rabah, Nigeria, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 21,087 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 39).

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 high 36° · 18 % · 36 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very high 36° · 17 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 35° · 14 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very high 35° · 16 % · 28 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 35° · 21 % · 19 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 36° · 20 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 36° · 16 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 22 % · 27 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

21,087
hectares burned
9.8 %
of its area
10
fires
2,142
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Rabah

  1. 2,503 ha Rabah fire, February 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,565 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,039 ha Goronyo fire, February 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 3,273 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 2,190 ha Rabah fire, January 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,176 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 2,766 ha Rabah fire, November 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,801 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 99 ha Goronyo fire, October 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,046 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 4,106 ha Rabah fire, January 2023 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 4,082 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 2,143 ha Rabah fire, December 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,131 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 2,176 ha Rabah fire, 4 December 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,163 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 1,802 ha Rabah fire, 1 December 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,150 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 2,264 ha Rabah fire, December 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,251 ha in total · 3 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).