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Wildfires in Kaduna

Kaduna, Nigeria: 114 fires with a page have entered 9 of its 23 local government areas since 2016, burning 338,403 hectares inside the region. The largest was Birnin Gwari in 3 January 2022, with 31,553 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 19).

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
338,403ha
Since 2016
Of the region
7.5%
45,365 km²
fires
114
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
9
of 23
Largest fire
31,553ha
Birnin Gwari · 3 January 2022
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 Moderate 33° · 34 % · 21 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 42 % · 28 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Moderate 32° · 30 % · 29 km/h
  4. Thu 29 High 33° · 27 % · 35 km/h
  5. Fri 30 High 33° · 28 % · 36 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Moderate 33° · 32 % · 25 km/h
  7. Sun 1 High 34° · 29 % · 29 km/h
  8. Mon 2 High 34° · 24 % · 29 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Birnin Gwari 245,201 ha · 39 %
  2. Chikun 38,146 ha · 8.5 %
  3. Kachia 22,766 ha · 5.0 %
  4. Kajuru 11,164 ha · 5.0 %
  5. Giwa 10,424 ha · 4.5 %
  6. Kauru 4,997 ha · 1.6 %
  7. Sanga 3,663 ha · 2.0 %
  8. Kaura 1,503 ha · 3.2 %
  9. Zangon Kataf 540 ha · 0.2 %

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
2026623,019 Rafi 11,098 ha
20252876,023 Kajuru 7,835 ha
202434,418 Birnin Gwari 2,165 ha
20231032,165 Mariga 13,084 ha
2022639,270 Birnin Gwari 31,553 ha
20211543,143 Birnin Gwari 5,862 ha
20201332,496 Birnin Gwari 3,893 ha
2019826,660 Birnin Gwari 7,728 ha
2018822,927 Birnin Gwari 4,571 ha
201736,415 Birnin Gwari 2,148 ha
20161431,866 Birnin Gwari 5,121 ha

All fires in Kaduna · 114

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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