Wildfires in Kano
Kano, Nigeria: 2 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 44 local government areas since 2016, burning 4,733 hectares inside the region. The largest was Doguwa in November 2017, with 2,554 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 24).
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
- 4,733ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.2%
- 20,369 km²
- fires
- 2
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 44
- Largest fire
- 2,554ha
- Doguwa · November 2017
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 High 32° · 29 % · 30 km/h
- Sat 24 High 32° · 24 % · 31 km/h
- Sun 25 High 31° · 22 % · 26 km/h
- Mon 26 High 33° · 21 % · 20 km/h
- Tue 27 High 33° · 21 % · 25 km/h
- Wed 28 High 33° · 21 % · 29 km/h
- Thu 29 High 33° · 23 % · 44 km/h
- Fri 30 High 33° · 21 % · 33 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Doguwa 4,733 ha · 3.4 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×Doguwa4,733 ha
Largest recorded fires
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Kano · 2
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).