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Wildfires in Yagba West

Yagba West, Nigeria, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 5,078 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.0% 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. Sat 14 High 33° · 42 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 15 High 34° · 33 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 16 High 35° · 28 % · 17 km/h
  4. Tue 17 High 34° · 24 % · 19 km/h
  5. Wed 18 High 35° · 22 % · 21 km/h
  6. Thu 19 High 36° · 19 % · 18 km/h
  7. Fri 20 High 35° · 32 % · 19 km/h
  8. Sat 21 High 34° · 37 % · 21 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Yagba West: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

5,078
hectares burned
4.0 %
of its area
2
fires
1,284
km²

How many times has Yagba West burned?

Yagba West has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Yagba West fire, February 2026, with 2,097 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
2
fires
1
years with fire
5,078
cumulative ha
15 Feb 2026
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 Yagba West

  1. 2,097 ha Yagba West fire, February 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,083 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 2,981 ha Pategi fire, 5 January 2026 2.3% of the municipality · 39,157 ha in total · 27 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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