Wildfires in Cross River
Cross River, Nigeria: 38 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 18 local government areas since 2016, burning 115,639 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ikom in February 2026, with 8,218 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).
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
- 115,639ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 5.5%
- 21,139 km²
- fires
- 38
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 10
- of 18
- Largest fire
- 8,218ha
- Ikom · February 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 35° · 44 % · 29 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 34° · 49 % · 27 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 35° · 49 % · 31 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 34° · 54 % · 21 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 32° · 66 % · 22 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 32° · 57 % · 24 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 34° · 51 % · 26 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 34° · 49 % · 26 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 8,218 haIkomFebruary 2026 · 11 days
- 5,860 haOgojaJanuary 2026 · 12 days
- 5,256 haOgoja17 January 2018 · 9 days
- 5,250 haYala3 January 2026 · 12 days
- 4,660 haAkamkpa22 February 2026 · 14 days
- 4,095 haOgojaFebruary 2019 · 12 days
- 3,753 haBokiFebruary 2016 · 9 days
- 3,652 haOgoja20 January 2016 · 11 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | 32,103 | Ikom 8,218 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 2,085 | Akamkpa 2,085 ha |
| 2024 | 2 | 5,002 | Ogoja 2,772 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 2,109 | Yakurr 2,109 ha |
| 2022 | 5 | 12,458 | Ikom 2,846 ha |
| 2021 | 5 | 14,994 | Yakurr 3,564 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 2,211 | Yakurr 2,211 ha |
| 2019 | 2 | 7,233 | Ogoja 4,095 ha |
| 2018 | 2 | 7,279 | Ogoja 5,256 ha |
| 2017 | 3 | 7,722 | Biase 2,866 ha |
| 2016 | 8 | 22,442 | Boki 3,753 ha |
All fires in Cross River · 38
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 3,126 haAkamkpa24 February 2026 · 12 days
- 4,660 haAkamkpa22 February 2026 · 14 days
- 2,824 haAkamkpa19 February 2026 · 13 days
- 8,218 haIkomFebruary 2026 · 11 days
- 5,860 haOgojaJanuary 2026 · 12 days
- 179 haOju3 January 2026 · 4 days of 2,669 ha in total
- 5,250 haYala3 January 2026 · 12 days
- 1,986 haYala3 January 2026 · 10 days of 3,487 ha in total
- 2,085 haAkamkpaFebruary 2025 · 6 days
- 2,231 haAkamkpaFebruary 2024 · 9 days
- 2,772 haOgojaJanuary 2024 · 5 days
- 2,109 haYakurrFebruary 2023 · 9 days
- 2,846 haIkomDecember 2022 · 6 days
- 2,505 haOgojaDecember 2022 · 4 days
- 2,138 haAkamkpaFebruary 2022 · 8 days
- 2,526 haOgojaJanuary 2022 · 7 days
- 2,443 haIkomJanuary 2022 · 8 days
- 3,564 haYakurrFebruary 2021 · 4 days
- 2,646 haOgoja18 January 2021 · 7 days
- 3,128 haIkomJanuary 2021 · 10 days
- 2,298 haOgoja17 January 2021 · 10 days
- 3,359 haOgoja15 January 2021 · 8 days
- 2,211 haYakurrFebruary 2020 · 10 days
- 3,138 haYalaDecember 2019 · 5 days
- 4,095 haOgojaFebruary 2019 · 12 days
- 5,256 haOgoja17 January 2018 · 9 days
- 2,023 haOgoja14 January 2018 · 4 days
- 2,034 haAkamkpaFebruary 2017 · 8 days
- 2,866 haBiaseFebruary 2017 · 10 days
- 2,822 haOgojaJanuary 2017 · 7 days
- 3,753 haBokiFebruary 2016 · 9 days
- 2,641 haYakurrFebruary 2016 · 10 days
- 2,518 haBiaseJanuary 2016 · 19 days
- 2,021 haIkomJanuary 2016 · 5 days
- 3,537 haOgoja21 January 2016 · 8 days
- 3,652 haOgoja20 January 2016 · 11 days
- 2,192 haOgoja12 January 2016 · 5 days
- 2,129 haOgoja1 January 2016 · 6 days
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).