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Wildfires in Tureta

Tureta, Nigeria, has had 20 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 45,613 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 24% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 27).

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. Fri 23 High 34° · 27 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 34° · 26 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 34° · 23 % · 18 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 34° · 22 % · 19 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 34° · 31 % · 25 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 34° · 24 % · 23 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 35° · 25 % · 34 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

45,613
hectares burned
24 %
of its area
20
fires
1,880
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Tureta

  1. 2,477 ha Tureta fire, 11 December 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,463 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 4,947 ha Tureta fire, 7 December 2025 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 4,918 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,397 ha Bakura fire, December 2025 1.3% of the municipality · 4,464 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 2,883 ha Tureta fire, 29 November 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,865 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 3,284 ha Tureta fire, 29 November 2025 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 3,556 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 3,174 ha Tureta fire, 29 November 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,155 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 770 ha Bukkuyum fire, 24 November 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 4,196 ha in total · 3 days
  8. 2,983 ha Tureta fire, 22 November 2025 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,966 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 3,140 ha Tureta fire, 22 November 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 5,724 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 178 ha Dange Shuni fire, November 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 2,056 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 2,607 ha Tureta fire, 4 November 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,592 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 590 ha Bakura fire, November 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 2,593 ha in total · 6 days
  13. 5,065 ha Tureta fire, 10 December 2024 where it started 2.7% of the municipality · 5,036 ha in total · 9 days
  14. 1,511 ha Tureta fire, 4 December 2024 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,281 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 2,654 ha Tureta fire, 2 December 2024 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 2,638 ha in total · 4 days
  16. 2,223 ha Tureta fire, November 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,336 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 400 ha Bakura fire, December 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 7,670 ha in total · 6 days
  18. 3,177 ha Tureta fire, December 2021 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 3,158 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 935 ha Bakura fire, November 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 7,575 ha in total · 12 days
  20. 219 ha Bakura fire, January 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 3,975 ha in total · 6 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).