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Wildfires in Toungo

Toungo, Nigeria, has had 21 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 59,956 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Sun 1 Very low 30° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Low 33° · 42 % · 27 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Moderate 34° · 35 % · 20 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Low 31° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Moderate 31° · 57 % · 30 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Low 31° · 56 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Low 31° · 53 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Low 32° · 51 % · 26 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

59,956
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
21
fires
5,684
km²

How many times has Toungo burned?

Toungo has burned 21 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2019, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Toungo fire, 21 February 2026, with 2,180 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 59,956 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 50,786 hectares, 8.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 13× 26
21
fires
4
years with fire
59,956
cumulative ha
50,786
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 Toungo

  1. 2,180 ha Toungo fire, 21 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,167 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 2,201 ha Toungo fire, 15 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,186 ha in total · 22 days
  3. 2,823 ha Toungo fire, 14 February 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,806 ha in total · 19 days
  4. 4,667 ha Toungo fire, 13 February 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,636 ha in total · 25 days
  5. 5,484 ha Toungo fire, 13 February 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,452 ha in total · 22 days
  6. 6,366 ha Toungo fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 8,623 ha in total · 23 days
  7. 4,919 ha Toungo fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 6,145 ha in total · 17 days
  8. 3,313 ha Toungo fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,291 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 2,039 ha Toungo fire, 23 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,026 ha in total · 14 days
  10. 2,404 ha Toungo fire, 23 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,389 ha in total · 14 days
  11. 2,558 ha Toungo fire, 22 January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,542 ha in total · 13 days
  12. 1,019 ha Gashaka fire, 15 January 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 2,721 ha in total · 23 days
  13. 28 ha Bali fire, 15 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 11,162 ha in total · 35 days
  14. 2,108 ha Toungo fire, December 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,096 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 2,019 ha Toungo fire, 23 January 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,844 ha in total · 17 days
  16. 2,063 ha Toungo fire, 22 January 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,048 ha in total · 19 days
  17. 4,710 ha Toungo fire, 15 January 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,364 ha in total · 23 days
  18. 841 ha Gashaka fire, 14 January 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 2,040 ha in total · 23 days
  19. 3,392 ha Toungo fire, 1 February 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,370 ha in total · 8 days
  20. 2,339 ha Toungo fire, 1 February 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,330 ha in total · 9 days
  21. 2,483 ha Toungo fire, January 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,467 ha in total · 14 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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