Wildfires in Ebonyi
Ebonyi, Nigeria: one fire with a page has entered 1 of its 13 local government areas since 2016, burning 188 hectares inside the region. The largest was Oju in 9 January 2026, with 188 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).
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
- 188ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.0%
- 6,529 km²
- fires
- 1
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 13
- Largest fire
- 188ha
- Oju · 9 January 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Very low 33° · 53 % · 22 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 33° · 58 % · 24 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 31° · 69 % · 24 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 31° · 71 % · 21 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 30° · 64 % · 21 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 32° · 56 % · 26 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 32° · 58 % · 32 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 32° · 64 % · 25 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Izzi 188 ha · 0.2 %
Largest recorded fires
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 188 | Oju 188 ha |
All fires in Ebonyi · 1
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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