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Wildfires in Rijau

Rijau, Nigeria, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 6,076 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.0% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 22).

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 High 36° · 25 % · 22 km/h
  2. Thu 29 High 36° · 29 % · 20 km/h
  3. Fri 30 High 36° · 23 % · 19 km/h
  4. Sat 31 High 35° · 34 % · 20 km/h
  5. Sun 1 High 37° · 26 % · 27 km/h
  6. Mon 2 High 38° · 26 % · 25 km/h
  7. Tue 3 High 38° · 24 % · 23 km/h
  8. Wed 4 High 37° · 31 % · 22 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

6,076
hectares burned
2.0 %
of its area
4
fires
3,024
km²

How many times has Rijau burned?

Rijau has burned 4 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Shanga fire, January 2026, with 318 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 6,076 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 4,746 hectares, 1.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
4
fires
4
years with fire
6,076
cumulative ha
4,746
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 Rijau

  1. 318 ha Shanga fire, January 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 7,705 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 1,061 ha Rijau fire, January 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,601 ha in total · 16 days
  3. 3,720 ha Rijau fire, January 2024 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 4,885 ha in total · 21 days
  4. 976 ha Shanga fire, January 2022 0.3% of the municipality · 2,133 ha in total · 21 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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