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Wildfires in Sakaba

Sakaba, Nigeria, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 41,473 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 30% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 20).

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° · 27 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 34° · 27 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 34° · 20 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 33° · 33 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 33° · 34 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 34° · 28 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 35° · 21 % · 35 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 36° · 20 % · 32 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

41,473
hectares burned
30 %
of its area
12
fires
1,401
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Sakaba

  1. 4,026 ha Sakaba fire, 17 January 2026 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 4,003 ha in total · 7 days
  2. 828 ha Wasagu-Danko fire, 3 January 2026 0.6% of the municipality · 2,050 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 1,830 ha Sakaba fire, 1 January 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,282 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 2,356 ha Mariga fire, 31 December 2025 1.7% of the municipality · 10,744 ha in total · 15 days
  5. 65 ha Mariga fire, 27 December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,127 ha in total · 10 days
  6. 6,889 ha Sakaba fire, January 2025 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 8,623 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 918 ha Mariga fire, 6 January 2025 0.7% of the municipality · 4,004 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 7,040 ha Sakaba fire, 28 December 2023 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 6,997 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 1,312 ha Sakaba fire, 23 December 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,492 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 9,326 ha Mariga fire, 18 December 2023 6.7% of the municipality · 13,270 ha in total · 23 days
  11. 3,529 ha Sakaba fire, January 2023 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 3,550 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 3,353 ha Sakaba fire, January 2022 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 5,306 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).