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Wildfires in Kebbi

Kebbi, Nigeria: 69 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 21 local government areas since 2016, burning 166,887 hectares inside the region. The largest was Mariga in 18 December 2023, with 9,326 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 21).

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
166,887ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.5%
37,439 km²
fires
69
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 21
Largest fire
9,326ha
Mariga · 18 December 2023
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 High 35° · 24 % · 20 km/h
  2. Tue 27 High 34° · 34 % · 18 km/h
  3. Wed 28 High 34° · 40 % · 17 km/h
  4. Thu 29 High 35° · 26 % · 28 km/h
  5. Fri 30 High 35° · 26 % · 16 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Moderate 34° · 39 % · 22 km/h
  7. Sun 1 High 36° · 27 % · 21 km/h
  8. Mon 2 High 36° · 25 % · 18 km/h

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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. Wasagu-Danko 62,564 ha · 15 %
  2. Sakaba 38,815 ha · 28 %
  3. Shanga 27,462 ha · 10 %
  4. Fakai 17,310 ha · 9.0 %
  5. Ngaski 12,696 ha · 4.6 %
  6. Bagudu 4,850 ha · 0.9 %
  7. Argungu 2,245 ha · 2.1 %
  8. Birnin Kebbi 944 ha · 0.9 %

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
2026621,781 Shanga 7,430 ha
20252139,423 Sakaba 6,889 ha
2024919,143 Ngaski 5,267 ha
2023937,210 Mariga 9,326 ha
2022813,689 Wasagu-Danko 3,374 ha
202145,662 Fakai 2,969 ha
202024,143 Shanga 3,660 ha
201924,586 Fakai 2,297 ha
201812,303 Fakai 2,303 ha
201724,791 Wasagu-Danko 2,773 ha
2016514,157 Wasagu-Danko 4,092 ha

All fires in Kebbi · 69

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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