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Wildfires in Benue

Benue, Nigeria: 94 fires with a page have entered 16 of its 23 local government areas since 2016, burning 360,209 hectares inside the region. The largest was Gwer East in 26 December 2025, with 30,070 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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
360,209ha
Since 2016
Of the region
12%
31,085 km²
fires
94
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
16
of 23
Largest fire
30,070ha
Gwer East · 26 December 2025
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 32° · 58 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 33° · 54 % · 24 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 33° · 58 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 32° · 63 % · 33 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 31° · 65 % · 30 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 61 % · 24 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 33° · 52 % · 27 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 32° · 64 % · 30 km/h

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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. Gwer West 85,786 ha · 69 %
  2. Gwer East 72,906 ha · 32 %
  3. Agatu 45,749 ha · 43 %
  4. Guma 42,651 ha · 14 %
  5. Oturkpo 24,410 ha · 18 %
  6. Oju 18,432 ha · 16 %
  7. Apa 17,679 ha · 16 %
  8. Makurdi 12,803 ha · 14 %
  9. Konshisha 11,791 ha · 6.4 %
  10. Okpokwu 9,307 ha · 10 %
  11. Kwande 6,783 ha · 2.6 %
  12. Logo 3,447 ha · 2.1 %

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
20262287,280 Oju 10,059 ha
202515101,039 Gwer East 30,070 ha
2024516,299 Omala 4,971 ha
2023619,138 Gwer West 5,388 ha
2022517,882 Apa 7,572 ha
20211127,594 Gwer West 4,682 ha
2020512,026 Gwer East 2,532 ha
2019620,733 Gwer West 6,814 ha
2018517,970 Gwer West 10,305 ha
2017927,018 Gwer West 4,006 ha
2016513,230 Gwer East 4,199 ha

All fires in Benue · 94

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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