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Wildfires in Adamawa

Adamawa, Nigeria: 44 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 21 local government areas since 2016, burning 120,910 hectares inside the region. The largest was Toungo in 24 January 2026, with 6,366 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 25).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
120,910ha
Since 2016
Of the region
3.0%
40,218 km²
fires
44
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 21
Largest fire
6,366ha
Toungo · 24 January 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 30 High 37° · 23 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sat 31 High 36° · 39 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Moderate 36° · 44 % · 31 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Moderate 37° · 36 % · 23 km/h
  5. Tue 3 High 37° · 28 % · 22 km/h
  6. Wed 4 High 37° · 33 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 5 High 37° · 28 % · 33 km/h
  8. Fri 6 High 37° · 29 % · 32 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. Toungo 59,956 ha · 11 %
  2. Demsa 21,951 ha · 14 %
  3. Numan 14,609 ha · 18 %
  4. Mayo-Belwa 10,187 ha · 4.3 %
  5. Madagali 10,025 ha · 10 %
  6. Song 2,680 ha · 0.6 %
  7. Fufore 1,098 ha · 0.2 %
  8. Maiha 404 ha · 0.3 %

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
20261544,158 Toungo 6,366 ha
2025614,047 Toungo 4,710 ha
2023410,181 Toungo 3,392 ha
202237,852 Demsa 3,338 ha
202115,044 Demsa 5,044 ha
202023,904 Demsa 2,480 ha
2019820,645 Demsa 4,117 ha
201727,775 Mayo-Belwa 3,921 ha
201637,302 Madagali 3,248 ha

All fires in Adamawa · 44

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 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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