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Wildfires in Takum

Takum, Nigeria, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 9,824 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Tue 27 Very low 30° · 73 % · 23 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 59 % · 25 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 30° · 65 % · 24 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 30° · 65 % · 24 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 67 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 31° · 62 % · 24 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 31° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 31° · 64 % · 25 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

9,824
hectares burned
3.1 %
of its area
5
fires
3,120
km²

How many times has Takum burned?

Takum has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Takum fire, February 2026, with 1,514 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
9,824
cumulative ha
18 Feb 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 Takum

  1. 1,514 ha Takum fire, February 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,077 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 1,795 ha Takum fire, January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,303 ha in total · 18 days
  3. 2,166 ha Takum fire, January 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,154 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 4,266 ha Takum fire, January 2022 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 4,239 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 83 ha Kurmi fire, 2 January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 2,795 ha in total · 20 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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