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Wildfires in Shanga

Shanga, Nigeria, has had 12 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 27,462 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% 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. Sat 31 High 35° · 37 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 1 High 36° · 34 % · 14 km/h
  3. Mon 2 High 35° · 43 % · 23 km/h
  4. Tue 3 High 37° · 26 % · 19 km/h
  5. Wed 4 High 35° · 29 % · 18 km/h
  6. Thu 5 High 36° · 19 % · 22 km/h
  7. Fri 6 High 36° · 19 % · 23 km/h
  8. Sat 7 High 36° · 26 % · 21 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

27,462
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
12
fires
2,741
km²

How many times has Shanga burned?

Shanga has burned 12 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Shanga fire, January 2026, with 7,430 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 27,462 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,675 hectares, 5.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 2× 26
12
fires
7
years with fire
27,462
cumulative ha
14,675
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 Shanga

  1. 7,430 ha Shanga fire, January 2026 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 7,705 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 371 ha Ngaski fire, January 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 4,519 ha in total · 21 days
  3. 1,985 ha Ngaski fire, January 2025 0.7% of the municipality · 2,864 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 2,249 ha Shanga fire, January 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,237 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 2,561 ha Rijau fire, January 2025 0.9% of the municipality · 3,601 ha in total · 16 days
  6. 656 ha Shanga fire, January 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,054 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 68 ha Ngaski fire, January 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 5,228 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 1,196 ha Rijau fire, January 2024 0.4% of the municipality · 4,885 ha in total · 21 days
  9. 1,170 ha Shanga fire, January 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,133 ha in total · 21 days
  10. 3,660 ha Shanga fire, January 2020 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 3,639 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 2,289 ha Shanga fire, January 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,276 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 3,826 ha Shanga fire, January 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,805 ha in total · 7 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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