Wildfires in Katsina
Katsina, Nigeria: 33 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 34 local government areas since 2016, burning 83,509 hectares inside the region. The largest was Faskari in November 2021, with 6,264 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 43).
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
- 83,509ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 3.4%
- 24,397 km²
- fires
- 33
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 10
- of 34
- Largest fire
- 6,264ha
- Faskari · November 2021
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Tue 3 Very high 36° · 13 % · 37 km/h
- Wed 4 Very high 35° · 15 % · 31 km/h
- Thu 5 Very high 35° · 15 % · 36 km/h
- Fri 6 Very high 35° · 14 % · 36 km/h
- Sat 7 Very high 35° · 16 % · 35 km/h
- Sun 8 Very high 35° · 14 % · 38 km/h
- Mon 9 Extreme 35° · 16 % · 45 km/h
- Tue 10 Extreme 34° · 18 % · 44 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 6,264 haFaskariNovember 2021 · 16 days
- 5,170 haSafanaJanuary 2022 · 7 days of 9,470 ha in total
- 4,719 haFaskariJanuary 2021 · 13 days
- 4,606 haSafana25 January 2026 · 7 days of 6,904 ha in total
- 4,366 haBatsariNovember 2025 · 7 days
- 3,461 haFaskariJanuary 2025 · 6 days
- 3,189 haSafanaNovember 2021 · 8 days of 3,530 ha in total
- 3,057 haDan MusaDecember 2021 · 7 days of 4,596 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Katsina · 33
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 298 haBirnin Magaji-KiyawMarch 2026 · 7 days of 3,129 ha in total
- 2,066 haFaskariJanuary 2026 · 8 days
- 4,606 haSafana25 January 2026 · 7 days of 6,904 ha in total
- 2,206 haSafana7 January 2026 · 3 days
- 2,718 haDan MusaDecember 2025 · 5 days
- 1,647 haFaskariNovember 2025 · 5 days of 2,306 ha in total
- 2,046 haSafanaNovember 2025 · 15 days
- 4,366 haBatsariNovember 2025 · 7 days
- 2,038 haJibiaNovember 2025 · 4 days
- 3,461 haFaskariJanuary 2025 · 6 days
- 2,039 haDan MusaDecember 2024 · 4 days
- 2,218 haJibiaDecember 2024 · 7 days
- 3,000 haKankaraDecember 2024 · 12 days
- 2,751 haFaskari6 December 2023 · 9 days
- 2,350 haFaskari5 December 2023 · 5 days
- 2,758 haFaskari4 December 2023 · 6 days
- 211 haBirnin Magaji-KiyawNovember 2023 · 4 days of 2,882 ha in total
- 2,299 haJibiaNovember 2023 · 5 days
- 2,659 haFaskariDecember 2022 · 4 days
- 2,296 haDan MusaFebruary 2022 · 3 days
- 5,170 haSafanaJanuary 2022 · 7 days of 9,470 ha in total
- 2,577 haJibiaDecember 2021 · 3 days
- 3,057 haDan MusaDecember 2021 · 7 days of 4,596 ha in total
- 6,264 haFaskariNovember 2021 · 16 days
- 3,189 haSafanaNovember 2021 · 8 days of 3,530 ha in total
- 2,072 haSafanaFebruary 2021 · 6 days of 3,420 ha in total
- 4,719 haFaskariJanuary 2021 · 13 days
- 1,426 haSafanaJanuary 2021 · 7 days of 3,731 ha in total
- 2,711 haFaskariDecember 2020 · 5 days
- 12 haBirnin Gwari1 December 2020 · 8 days of 2,076 ha in total
- 1,528 haDan MusaDecember 2019 · 4 days of 2,760 ha in total
- 2,348 haSafanaNovember 2019 · 4 days
- 402 haMaru28 January 2017 · 13 days of 4,150 ha in total
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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