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Wildfires in Borno

Borno, Nigeria: 463 fires with a page have entered 22 of its 27 local government areas since 2016, burning 1,825,041 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kukawa in 28 September 2026, with 48,095 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 30).

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
1,825,041ha
Since 2016
Of the region
25%
72,611 km²
fires
463
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
22
of 27
Largest fire
48,095ha
Kukawa · 28 September 2026
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 34° · 20 % · 23 km/h
  2. Sun 25 High 33° · 21 % · 20 km/h
  3. Mon 26 High 35° · 19 % · 19 km/h
  4. Tue 27 High 35° · 18 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 28 High 36° · 17 % · 34 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very high 36° · 18 % · 41 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very high 36° · 17 % · 29 km/h
  8. Sat 31 High 36° · 17 % · 23 km/h

Burning now in the region

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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. Kukawa 234,313 ha · 48 %
  2. Mafa 184,612 ha · 54 %
  3. Abadam 175,566 ha · 44 %
  4. Kala Balge 153,075 ha · 48 %
  5. Marte 144,657 ha · 69 %
  6. Damboa 136,263 ha · 28 %
  7. Konduga 126,099 ha · 24 %
  8. Gwoza 110,929 ha · 31 %
  9. Ngala 101,147 ha · 50 %
  10. Monguno 84,164 ha · 36 %
  11. Nganzai 74,626 ha · 35 %
  12. Bama 70,716 ha · 18 %

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
202631194,602 Kukawa 48,095 ha
202595359,778 Nganzai 14,657 ha
20241750,997 Mobbar 7,530 ha
202348158,567 Mafa 10,537 ha
2022825,240 Kala Balge 5,849 ha
202142181,905 Abadam 30,296 ha
202052167,816 Mafa 16,344 ha
201935119,397 Abadam 15,008 ha
20181784,945 Kukawa 25,536 ha
201756262,233 Abadam 35,091 ha
201662219,561 Abadam 32,139 ha

All fires in Borno · 463

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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