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Wildfires in Yorro

Yorro, Nigeria, has had 10 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 26,484 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 22% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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 Moderate 32° · 42 % · 30 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 33° · 41 % · 27 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 32° · 47 % · 24 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Low 31° · 60 % · 32 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 31° · 45 % · 28 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Moderate 34° · 28 % · 38 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Moderate 32° · 38 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 33° · 48 % · 36 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

26,484
hectares burned
22 %
of its area
10
fires
1,185
km²

How many times has Yorro burned?

Yorro has burned 10 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Mayo-Belwa fire, 14 January 2026, with 68 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 26,484 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 14,431 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
10
fires
7
years with fire
26,484
cumulative ha
14,431
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 Yorro

  1. 68 ha Mayo-Belwa fire, 14 January 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,195 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 2,789 ha Yorro fire, January 2026 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 2,770 ha in total · 8 days
  3. 2,176 ha Yorro fire, February 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,163 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 3,120 ha Yorro fire, December 2020 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 3,131 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 2,391 ha Yorro fire, February 2020 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 2,376 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 3,043 ha Yorro fire, January 2020 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 3,022 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 2,949 ha Yorro fire, December 2019 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 2,929 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 5,153 ha Yorro fire, December 2018 where it started 4.4% of the municipality · 5,457 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 2,759 ha Yorro fire, December 2017 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 2,740 ha in total · 6 days
  10. 2,037 ha Yorro fire, January 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 2,023 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).

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