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Wildfires in Kogi

Kogi, Nigeria: 62 fires with a page have entered 14 of its 21 local government areas since 2016, burning 186,552 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kabba/Bunu in December 2025, with 35,892 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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
186,552ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.4%
29,063 km²
fires
62
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
14
of 21
Largest fire
35,892ha
Kabba/Bunu · December 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Low 34° · 49 % · 18 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Low 34° · 52 % · 21 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 33° · 57 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 63 % · 19 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 56 % · 36 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Low 33° · 49 % · 24 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Low 33° · 51 % · 21 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Low 32° · 56 % · 21 km/h

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

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

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Bassa 34,523 ha · 18 %
  2. Omala 33,894 ha · 22 %
  3. Lokoja 27,693 ha · 8.6 %
  4. Kabba/Bunu 26,394 ha · 9.9 %
  5. Igalamela-Odolu 20,088 ha · 9.6 %
  6. Kogi 12,822 ha · 8.5 %
  7. Ibaji 12,742 ha · 9.4 %
  8. Mopa-Muro 5,991 ha · 7.7 %
  9. Yagba West 5,078 ha · 4.0 %
  10. Ankpa 2,835 ha · 2.2 %
  11. Dekina 2,226 ha · 0.9 %
  12. Yagba East 1,990 ha · 1.3 %

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
20261747,215 Omala 5,809 ha
2025237,826 Kabba/Bunu 35,892 ha
202425,590 Omala 3,207 ha
20221030,330 Bassa 7,509 ha
202147,365 Kogi 2,723 ha
2020510,840 Bassa 3,479 ha
201927,301 Igalamela-Odolu 3,812 ha
201857,360 Omala 2,647 ha
2017714,246 Mopa-Muro 3,961 ha
2016818,478 Igalamela-Odolu 3,497 ha

All fires in Kogi · 62

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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