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Wildfires in Wase

Wase, Nigeria, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 105,610 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 24).

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 38° · 26 % · 22 km/h
  2. Sat 24 High 37° · 21 % · 23 km/h
  3. Sun 25 High 36° · 24 % · 23 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 36° · 27 % · 25 km/h
  5. Tue 27 High 35° · 39 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 High 36° · 39 % · 30 km/h
  7. Thu 29 High 38° · 16 % · 40 km/h
  8. Fri 30 High 38° · 13 % · 31 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

105,610
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
22
fires
4,912
km²

How many times has Wase burned?

Wase has burned 22 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2016, 2017, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Wase fire, 26 January 2026, with 2,412 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 105,610 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 84,503 hectares, 17 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 3× 22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 11× 25
  11. 3× 26
22
fires
6
years with fire
105,610
cumulative ha
84,503
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 Wase

  1. 2,412 ha Wase fire, 26 January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,040 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 3,859 ha Wase fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,105 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,826 ha Wase fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,810 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 60 ha Karim Lamido fire, 26 December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 6,676 ha in total · 16 days
  5. 29 ha Karim Lamido fire, 23 December 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,860 ha in total · 8 days
  6. 2,462 ha Wase fire, 16 December 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,446 ha in total · 7 days
  7. 2,522 ha Wase fire, 6 December 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,505 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 3,058 ha Wase fire, 6 December 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,037 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 26,730 ha Wase fire, 3 December 2025 where it started 5.4% of the municipality · 34,595 ha in total · 19 days
  10. 2,345 ha Wase fire, 21 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,329 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 2,829 ha Wase fire, 17 November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,810 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 2,542 ha Wase fire, 13 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,524 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 25,457 ha Wase fire, 11 November 2025 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 31,006 ha in total · 18 days
  14. 9,588 ha Wase fire, January 2025 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 11,611 ha in total · 14 days
  15. 3,864 ha Wase fire, 8 February 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,837 ha in total · 9 days
  16. 3,040 ha Wase fire, 3 February 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,021 ha in total · 5 days
  17. 282 ha Karim Lamido fire, 29 December 2022 0.1% of the municipality · 2,569 ha in total · 7 days
  18. 3,653 ha Karim Lamido fire, 27 December 2022 0.7% of the municipality · 6,134 ha in total · 8 days
  19. 2,239 ha Wase fire, December 2022 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,224 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 3,154 ha Wase fire, January 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,135 ha in total · 11 days
  21. 2,584 ha Wase fire, January 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,568 ha in total · 5 days
  22. 76 ha Langtang South fire, January 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 2,568 ha in total · 4 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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