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Wildfires in Edo

Edo, Nigeria: 88 fires with a page have entered 13 of its 18 local government areas since 2016, burning 330,736 hectares inside the region. The largest was Iguegben in 11 February 2023, with 42,643 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
330,736ha
Since 2016
Of the region
17%
19,687 km²
fires
88
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
13
of 18
Largest fire
42,643ha
Iguegben · 11 February 2023
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very low 32° · 67 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 32° · 65 % · 22 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 32° · 65 % · 18 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 31° · 72 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 29° · 84 % · 29 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 31° · 64 % · 27 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 32° · 60 % · 34 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 31° · 68 % · 39 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Uhunmwonde 113,429 ha · 54 %
  2. Orhionmwon 50,820 ha · 21 %
  3. Esan West 33,872 ha · 66 %
  4. Iguegben 29,623 ha · 79 %
  5. Etsako West 28,138 ha · 31 %
  6. Esan South-East 21,475 ha · 16 %
  7. Ovia North-East 15,283 ha · 6.5 %
  8. Owan West 10,307 ha · 14 %
  9. Etsako Central 10,047 ha · 14 %
  10. Ovia South-West 8,660 ha · 3.1 %
  11. Owan East 4,088 ha · 3.3 %
  12. Esan Central 3,780 ha · 15 %

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
20261333,217 Etsako Central 3,543 ha
202513,397 Etsako West 3,397 ha
20241032,154 Esan West 5,543 ha
20231597,257 Iguegben 42,643 ha
2022720,834 Etsako West 4,569 ha
2021524,122 Uhunmwonde 8,369 ha
2020835,081 Uhunmwonde 10,897 ha
201936,008 Owan West 3,059 ha
20171133,388 Esan South-East 6,257 ha
20161545,278 Uhunmwonde 9,146 ha

All fires in Edo · 88

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).