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Wildfires in Diffa

Diffa, Niger: 66 fires with a page have entered 7 of its 12 communes since 2016, burning 136,471 hectares inside the region. The largest was N'Guigmi in October 2016, with 10,796 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 76).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
136,471ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.9%
148,855 km²
fires
66
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
7
of 12
Largest fire
10,796ha
N'Guigmi · October 2016
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 Very extreme 35° · 13 % · 50 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very extreme 34° · 8 % · 48 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very extreme 33° · 10 % · 47 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Extreme 34° · 11 % · 38 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Extreme 34° · 13 % · 36 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Extreme 35° · 13 % · 37 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Extreme 35° · 14 % · 34 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Extreme 34° · 16 % · 41 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Bosso 49,665 ha · 29 %
  2. N'Guigmi 24,120 ha · 7.7 %
  3. Gueskérou 20,093 ha · 7.9 %
  4. Kabléwa 15,024 ha · 2.2 %
  5. Goudoumaria 13,088 ha · 1.7 %
  6. N'Guelbély 11,966 ha · 3.4 %
  7. Toumour 2,516 ha · 36 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202631,989 Goudoumaria 1,606 ha
20251632,907 N'Guelbély 5,053 ha
2024919,316 Kabléwa 6,838 ha
202245,419 Bosso 1,724 ha
202125,027 Gueskérou 3,287 ha
202046,565 Bosso 2,625 ha
2019411,602 Bosso 8,422 ha
2018614,285 Bosso 8,858 ha
201722,526 N'Guigmi 1,474 ha
20161636,836 N'Guigmi 10,796 ha

All fires in Diffa · 66

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from OCHA COD-AB/IGNN (Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).