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Wildfires in Yewa North

Yewa North, Nigeria, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 13,790 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 70 % · 26 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 32° · 66 % · 25 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 32° · 61 % · 25 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 32° · 64 % · 25 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Low 32° · 61 % · 25 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Low 32° · 63 % · 30 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 32° · 70 % · 37 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 32° · 68 % · 30 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

13,790
hectares burned
7.6 %
of its area
5
fires
1,816
km²

How many times has Yewa North burned?

Yewa North has burned 5 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Yewa North fire, February 2026, with 2,832 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 13,790 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,006 hectares, 3.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
5
fires
4
years with fire
13,790
cumulative ha
7,006
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 Yewa North

  1. 2,832 ha Yewa North fire, February 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 2,816 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 2,785 ha Yewa North fire, January 2026 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,767 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 2,706 ha Yewa North fire, January 2025 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 2,689 ha in total · 20 days
  4. 3,376 ha Yewa North fire, February 2024 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 3,355 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 2,092 ha Yewa North fire, December 2022 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,079 ha in total · 12 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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