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Wildfires in Toto

Toto, Nigeria, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 28,432 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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 24 Low 35° · 44 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 34° · 48 % · 24 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 33° · 58 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 62 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 58 % · 13 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 34° · 44 % · 25 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 33° · 51 % · 22 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 32° · 57 % · 23 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

28,432
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
7
fires
2,663
km²

How many times has Toto burned?

Toto has burned 7 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2021 and 2022. The most recent: Toto fire, January 2022, with 7,617 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 28,432 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 24,050 hectares, 9.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 5× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
7
fires
3
years with fire
28,432
cumulative ha
24,050
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 Toto

  1. 7,617 ha Toto fire, January 2022 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 7,571 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 726 ha Nasarawa fire, February 2021 0.3% of the municipality · 5,496 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 1,874 ha Toto fire, 21 January 2021 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,350 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 2,394 ha Toto fire, 18 January 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,379 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 11,066 ha Toto fire, 18 January 2021 where it started 4.2% of the municipality · 10,998 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 2,117 ha Toto fire, 16 January 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,103 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,640 ha Toto fire, January 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,624 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).

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