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Wildfires in Rafi

Rafi, Nigeria, has had 67 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 257,433 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 67% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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 Moderate 34° · 36 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 33° · 48 % · 17 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 33° · 26 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 32° · 55 % · 20 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Low 32° · 55 % · 19 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 33° · 47 % · 20 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Moderate 35° · 28 % · 30 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 33° · 37 % · 23 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

257,433
hectares burned
67 %
of its area
67
fires
3,863
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Rafi

  1. 4,507 ha Rafi fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,477 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,183 ha Rafi fire, 21 January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,137 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 5,717 ha Rafi fire, 17 January 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 16,719 ha in total · 16 days
  4. 2,540 ha Rafi fire, 15 January 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,526 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 222 ha Mariga fire, 14 January 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 10,748 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 21 ha Mariga fire, 14 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 10,375 ha in total · 13 days
  7. 4,227 ha Rafi fire, 5 January 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,197 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 5,152 ha Shiroro fire, 29 December 2025 1.3% of the municipality · 8,017 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 488 ha Shiroro fire, 28 December 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,610 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 33,109 ha Shiroro fire, 27 December 2025 8.6% of the municipality · 55,406 ha in total · 34 days
  11. 4,398 ha Rafi fire, November 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,367 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 960 ha Birnin Gwari fire, 10 January 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 2,161 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 4,027 ha Rafi fire, 7 January 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,007 ha in total · 10 days
  14. 17,910 ha Rafi fire, 5 January 2025 where it started 4.6% of the municipality · 17,807 ha in total · 9 days
  15. 3,543 ha Rafi fire, 3 January 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,523 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 2,978 ha Rafi fire, December 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,009 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 117 ha Shiroro fire, 9 December 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 2,088 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 296 ha Wushishi fire, January 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 2,268 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 4,300 ha Rafi fire, 9 January 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,277 ha in total · 11 days
  20. 3,475 ha Rafi fire, 6 January 2024 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,453 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 2,392 ha Rafi fire, 4 January 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,378 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 8,632 ha Mariga fire, 2 January 2024 2.2% of the municipality · 21,648 ha in total · 19 days
  23. 15,869 ha Rafi fire, 1 January 2024 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 15,783 ha in total · 13 days
  24. 3,154 ha Rafi fire, December 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,134 ha in total · 9 days
  25. 6 ha Mariga fire, 30 December 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 19,897 ha in total · 18 days
  26. 1,555 ha Shiroro fire, November 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 14,409 ha in total · 18 days
  27. 2,269 ha Rafi fire, November 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,253 ha in total · 4 days
  28. 105 ha Birnin Gwari fire, 12 January 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,425 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 8,318 ha Rafi fire, January 2023 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 8,385 ha in total · 10 days
  30. 2,714 ha Rafi fire, 30 December 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,699 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 2,946 ha Rafi fire, 27 December 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,203 ha in total · 10 days
  32. 14 ha Birnin Gwari fire, 29 January 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,462 ha in total · 4 days
  33. 5,286 ha Rafi fire, 21 January 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,251 ha in total · 12 days
  34. 2,437 ha Mariga fire, 18 January 2022 0.6% of the municipality · 4,583 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 2,390 ha Rafi fire, 14 January 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,377 ha in total · 9 days
  36. 3,692 ha Rafi fire, 13 January 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,707 ha in total · 6 days
  37. 6,853 ha Birnin Gwari fire, 9 January 2022 1.8% of the municipality · 38,283 ha in total · 32 days
  38. 2 ha Mariga fire, 31 December 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 3,010 ha in total · 2 days
  39. 1,336 ha Shiroro fire, 29 December 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 3,549 ha in total · 6 days
  40. 4,612 ha Rafi fire, 27 December 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,587 ha in total · 6 days
  41. 4,340 ha Rafi fire, 24 December 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,315 ha in total · 8 days
  42. 4,626 ha Rafi fire, 22 December 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,593 ha in total · 8 days
  43. 2,933 ha Shiroro fire, 20 December 2021 0.8% of the municipality · 4,583 ha in total · 4 days
  44. 180 ha Shiroro fire, 15 December 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 14,261 ha in total · 15 days
  45. 3,474 ha Rafi fire, 23 January 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,150 ha in total · 4 days
  46. 5,785 ha Birnin Gwari fire, 16 January 2021 1.5% of the municipality · 15,170 ha in total · 13 days
  47. 12,328 ha Rafi fire, 9 January 2021 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 12,255 ha in total · 21 days
  48. 3 ha Mariga fire, 4 January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,830 ha in total · 6 days
  49. 23,280 ha Rafi fire, 4 January 2021 where it started 6.0% of the municipality · 23,153 ha in total · 26 days
  50. 1,037 ha Rafi fire, 4 January 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,264 ha in total · 4 days
  51. 2,723 ha Rafi fire, 29 December 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,826 ha in total · 10 days
  52. 247 ha Shiroro fire, 24 December 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 2,186 ha in total · 5 days
  53. 3,477 ha Rafi fire, 23 December 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,453 ha in total · 3 days
  54. 2,501 ha Rafi fire, February 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,486 ha in total · 7 days
  55. 375 ha Birnin Gwari fire, 30 January 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 2,003 ha in total · 8 days
  56. 2,193 ha Rafi fire, 29 January 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,180 ha in total · 3 days
  57. 3,598 ha Rafi fire, 23 January 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 3,577 ha in total · 5 days
  58. 2,639 ha Rafi fire, 23 January 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,624 ha in total · 8 days
  59. 258 ha Rafi fire, 17 January 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,668 ha in total · 8 days
  60. 2,517 ha Shiroro fire, 16 January 2020 0.6% of the municipality · 7,019 ha in total · 11 days
  61. 56 ha Shiroro fire, December 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 7,461 ha in total · 17 days
  62. 566 ha Rafi fire, January 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,751 ha in total · 7 days
  63. 578 ha Shiroro fire, 14 January 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 2,985 ha in total · 7 days
  64. 2,024 ha Rafi fire, January 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,012 ha in total · 5 days
  65. 1,381 ha Rafi fire, December 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,229 ha in total · 3 days
  66. 3 ha Shiroro fire, 3 December 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 3,668 ha in total · 4 days
  67. 555 ha Shiroro fire, January 2017 0.1% of the municipality · 9,740 ha in total · 13 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).