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Wildfires in Riyom

Riyom, Nigeria, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 351 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.4% 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. Fri 23 Moderate 30° · 28 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 29° · 27 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 27° · 36 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 27° · 62 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 28° · 39 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 30° · 25 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 29° · 25 % · 60 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Moderate 30° · 25 % · 35 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

351
hectares burned
0.4 %
of its area
2
fires
808
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Riyom

  1. 327 ha Bassa fire, December 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 2,017 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 24 ha Bassa fire, December 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,108 ha in total · 8 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).