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Wildfires in Shiroro

Shiroro, Nigeria, has had 49 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 194,879 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 42% 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. Mon 26 Moderate 34° · 46 % · 20 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Low 32° · 54 % · 21 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Low 32° · 59 % · 13 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 34 % · 21 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Moderate 32° · 52 % · 21 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Low 32° · 56 % · 19 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Moderate 33° · 46 % · 19 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Low 33° · 57 % · 17 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

194,879
hectares burned
42 %
of its area
49
fires
4,669
km²

How many times has Shiroro burned?

Shiroro has burned 49 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Shiroro fire, January 2026, with 3,199 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 9× 20
  6. 8× 21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 6× 24
  10. 10× 25
  11. 2× 26
49
fires
11
years with fire
194,879
cumulative ha
4 Jan 2026
most recent

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 Shiroro

  1. 3,199 ha Shiroro fire, January 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,199 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 7,233 ha Shiroro fire, January 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 7,181 ha in total · 11 days
  3. 2,140 ha Shiroro fire, 28 December 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,610 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 2,914 ha Shiroro fire, 22 December 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,017 ha in total · 27 days
  5. 22,641 ha Shiroro fire, 21 December 2025 where it started 4.8% of the municipality · 55,406 ha in total · 46 days
  6. 1,321 ha Shiroro fire, 16 December 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,124 ha in total · 9 days
  7. 8,009 ha Shiroro fire, 12 December 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 7,954 ha in total · 12 days
  8. 5,824 ha Shiroro fire, 8 December 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,783 ha in total · 17 days
  9. 7,686 ha Birnin Gwari fire, 3 December 2025 1.6% of the municipality · 8,587 ha in total · 29 days
  10. 2,717 ha Shiroro fire, November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,699 ha in total · 17 days
  11. 2,803 ha Shiroro fire, 1 January 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,784 ha in total · 17 days
  12. 2,182 ha Shiroro fire, 1 January 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,167 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 48 ha Rafi fire, 24 December 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 3,009 ha in total · 15 days
  14. 2,435 ha Shiroro fire, 20 December 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,418 ha in total · 7 days
  15. 2,858 ha Shiroro fire, 17 December 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,837 ha in total · 10 days
  16. 1,986 ha Shiroro fire, 8 December 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,088 ha in total · 13 days
  17. 2,890 ha Shiroro fire, 27 November 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,870 ha in total · 14 days
  18. 2,256 ha Shiroro fire, 24 November 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,240 ha in total · 11 days
  19. 2,453 ha Shiroro fire, December 2023 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,453 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 12,693 ha Shiroro fire, 22 November 2023 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 14,409 ha in total · 32 days
  21. 2,305 ha Shiroro fire, 27 December 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,288 ha in total · 20 days
  22. 2,526 ha Shiroro fire, 2 December 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,506 ha in total · 19 days
  23. 2,905 ha Shiroro fire, January 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,886 ha in total · 6 days
  24. 2,235 ha Shiroro fire, 22 December 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,549 ha in total · 13 days
  25. 465 ha Chikun fire, 22 December 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 3,210 ha in total · 11 days
  26. 3,899 ha Shiroro fire, 17 December 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,871 ha in total · 17 days
  27. 14,182 ha Shiroro fire, 14 December 2021 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 14,261 ha in total · 21 days
  28. 1,681 ha Shiroro fire, 13 December 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,583 ha in total · 13 days
  29. 702 ha Rafi fire, 23 January 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 4,150 ha in total · 7 days
  30. 2,857 ha Shiroro fire, January 2021 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 2,857 ha in total · 10 days
  31. 6,931 ha Shiroro fire, January 2021 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 6,879 ha in total · 10 days
  32. 2,350 ha Shiroro fire, 25 December 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,334 ha in total · 12 days
  33. 121 ha Rafi fire, 24 December 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 2,826 ha in total · 22 days
  34. 1,953 ha Shiroro fire, 17 December 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,186 ha in total · 18 days
  35. 2,509 ha Shiroro fire, 6 December 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,492 ha in total · 12 days
  36. 3,736 ha Shiroro fire, 13 January 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,708 ha in total · 13 days
  37. 2,427 ha Rafi fire, 10 January 2020 0.5% of the municipality · 2,668 ha in total · 21 days
  38. 2,878 ha Shiroro fire, 10 January 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,856 ha in total · 16 days
  39. 4,550 ha Shiroro fire, 9 January 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 7,019 ha in total · 25 days
  40. 2,060 ha Shiroro fire, 8 January 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,045 ha in total · 11 days
  41. 7,460 ha Shiroro fire, December 2019 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 7,461 ha in total · 17 days
  42. 2,204 ha Rafi fire, January 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 2,751 ha in total · 8 days
  43. 2,427 ha Shiroro fire, January 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,985 ha in total · 17 days
  44. 3,200 ha Shiroro fire, January 2018 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,200 ha in total · 6 days
  45. 2,044 ha Shiroro fire, 23 December 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,028 ha in total · 9 days
  46. 1,870 ha Rafi fire, December 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 3,229 ha in total · 16 days
  47. 3,668 ha Shiroro fire, December 2017 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,668 ha in total · 4 days
  48. 9,259 ha Shiroro fire, January 2017 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 9,740 ha in total · 19 days
  49. 3,190 ha Shiroro fire, January 2016 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,166 ha in total · 19 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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