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Wildfires in Zurmi

Zurmi, Nigeria, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 9,018 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.6% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 46).

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 27 High 35° · 17 % · 19 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very high 36° · 16 % · 40 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very high 36° · 16 % · 33 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 13 % · 30 km/h
  5. Sat 31 High 36° · 14 % · 18 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very high 37° · 11 % · 32 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very high 37° · 13 % · 28 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very 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

9,018
hectares burned
3.6 %
of its area
7
fires
2,527
km²

How many times has Zurmi burned?

Zurmi has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2025. The most recent: Zurmi fire, November 2025, with 1,718 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11.   26
7
fires
5
years with fire
9,018
cumulative ha
25 Nov 2025
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 Zurmi

  1. 1,718 ha Zurmi fire, November 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,410 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 7 ha Batsari fire, November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 4,347 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,202 ha Zurmi fire, November 2023 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,188 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,126 ha Zurmi fire, January 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,664 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 2,144 ha Zurmi fire, November 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,131 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,156 ha Zurmi fire, January 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,052 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 664 ha Zurmi fire, March 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,203 ha in total · 3 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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