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Wildfires in Bauchi

Bauchi, Nigeria: 33 fires with a page have entered 6 of its 20 local government areas since 2016, burning 78,794 hectares inside the region. The largest was Alkaleri in 18 November 2017, with 4,702 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 23).

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
78,794ha
Since 2016
Of the region
1.6%
49,873 km²
fires
33
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
6
of 20
Largest fire
4,702ha
Alkaleri · 18 November 2017
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 High 32° · 26 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 32° · 23 % · 24 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 33° · 24 % · 17 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 33° · 25 % · 19 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 33° · 22 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 33° · 22 % · 40 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 33° · 21 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 34° · 20 % · 22 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Alkaleri 58,087 ha · 8.1 %
  2. Toro 10,960 ha · 1.6 %
  3. Ningi 6,479 ha · 1.3 %
  4. Tafawa-Balewa 1,202 ha · 0.5 %
  5. Dass 1,053 ha · 1.5 %
  6. Ganjuwa 1,012 ha · 0.2 %

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
202648,430 Alkaleri 2,458 ha
20251183 Kanam 183 ha
202337,118 Alkaleri 2,676 ha
202149,122 Alkaleri 2,670 ha
202026,213 Alkaleri 3,115 ha
2017822,770 Alkaleri 4,702 ha
20161124,958 Toro 2,662 ha

All fires in Bauchi · 33

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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