Wildfires in Ekiti
Ekiti, Nigeria: 7 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 16 local government areas since 2016, burning 18,622 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ise/Orun in January 2026, with 4,818 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
- 18,622ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 3.2%
- 5,820 km²
- fires
- 7
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 8
- of 16
- Largest fire
- 4,818ha
- Ise/Orun · January 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sun 1 Very low 31° · 59 % · 26 km/h
- Mon 2 Very low 30° · 65 % · 36 km/h
- Tue 3 Very low 30° · 62 % · 27 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low 31° · 57 % · 25 km/h
- Thu 5 Low 30° · 54 % · 22 km/h
- Fri 6 Low 30° · 55 % · 21 km/h
- Sat 7 Low 32° · 42 % · 21 km/h
- Sun 8 Low 31° · 56 % · 22 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Ekiti South-West 6,265 ha · 21 %
- Ikere 3,541 ha · 12 %
- Ise/Orun 3,376 ha · 7.8 %
- Ikole 2,530 ha · 2.4 %
- Oye 2,339 ha · 4.0 %
- Ado-Ekiti 364 ha · 1.3 %
- Ekiti West 179 ha · 0.5 %
- Efon 28 ha · 0.1 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 4×Ekiti South-West6,265 ha
- 2×Ikere3,541 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 4,818 haIse/OrunJanuary 2026 · 20 days
- 2,851 haEkiti South-WestJanuary 2016 · 10 days
- 2,808 haIkereFebruary 2017 · 11 days
- 2,530 haIkoleJanuary 2026 · 14 days
- 2,339 haOyeJanuary 2026 · 20 days of 2,667 ha in total
- 2,021 haEkiti South-WestJanuary 2020 · 17 days
- 1,255 haEkiti WestJanuary 2020 · 21 days of 2,359 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 9,687 | Ise/Orun 4,818 ha |
| 2020 | 2 | 3,276 | Ekiti South-West 2,021 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 2,808 | Ikere 2,808 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 2,851 | Ekiti South-West 2,851 ha |
All fires in Ekiti · 7
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 2,339 haOyeJanuary 2026 · 20 days of 2,667 ha in total
- 4,818 haIse/OrunJanuary 2026 · 20 days
- 2,530 haIkoleJanuary 2026 · 14 days
- 2,021 haEkiti South-WestJanuary 2020 · 17 days
- 1,255 haEkiti WestJanuary 2020 · 21 days of 2,359 ha in total
- 2,808 haIkereFebruary 2017 · 11 days
- 2,851 haEkiti South-WestJanuary 2016 · 10 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).
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