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Wildfires in Zinder

Zinder, Niger: 109 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 55 communes since 2016, burning 219,762 hectares inside the region. The largest was Tesker in 29 October 2025, with 11,466 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very extreme (FWI 77).

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
219,762ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.5%
147,413 km²
fires
109
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 55
Largest fire
11,466ha
Tesker · 29 October 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Extreme 35° · 12 % · 39 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very extreme 34° · 7 % · 47 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 35° · 10 % · 35 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 36° · 10 % · 31 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 36° · 10 % · 34 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Extreme 35° · 13 % · 36 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 35° · 14 % · 41 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very extreme 33° · 10 % · 45 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. Tesker 114,645 ha · 1.6 %
  2. Tenhya 28,846 ha · 2.6 %
  3. Kellé 27,488 ha · 4.0 %
  4. Alakoss 23,563 ha · 7.4 %
  5. Tarka 23,200 ha · 2.5 %
  6. Guidiguir 1,172 ha · 0.5 %
  7. Tanout 800 ha · 0.1 %
  8. Moa 48 ha · 0.1 %

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
20261114,535 Tesker 2,327 ha
202539106,769 Tesker 11,466 ha
20242238,002 Tarka 3,812 ha
202321,933 Tarka 1,162 ha
202268,047 Tesker 2,239 ha
2021611,841 Tesker 3,148 ha
202035,891 Tesker 3,284 ha
201923,170 Tesker 1,699 ha
2018812,746 Tesker 3,596 ha
201711,663 Tesker 1,663 ha
2016915,167 Tesker 2,527 ha

All fires in Zinder · 109

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).

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