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Wildfires in Wukari

Wukari, Nigeria, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 8,296 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.9% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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 34° · 43 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 34° · 44 % · 28 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 34° · 57 % · 28 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 31° · 62 % · 24 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Low 31° · 62 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 34° · 42 % · 27 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 34° · 45 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 33° · 50 % · 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

8,296
hectares burned
1.9 %
of its area
3
fires
4,297
km²

How many times has Wukari burned?

Wukari has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2017 and 2018. The most recent: Wukari fire, January 2018, with 2,477 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
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  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
3
years with fire
8,296
cumulative ha
3 Jan 2018
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 Wukari

  1. 2,477 ha Wukari fire, January 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,461 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 3,050 ha Wukari fire, January 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,031 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 2,768 ha Wukari fire, December 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,750 ha in total · 9 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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