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Wildfires in Kwara

Kwara, Nigeria: 40 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 16 local government areas since 2016, burning 208,240 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ifelodun in 3 January 2026, with 42,832 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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
208,240ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.2%
33,610 km²
fires
40
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 16
Largest fire
42,832ha
Ifelodun · 3 January 2026
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 35° · 39 % · 32 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Moderate 35° · 35 % · 30 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Moderate 36° · 36 % · 31 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Moderate 36° · 32 % · 32 km/h
  5. Fri 30 High 36° · 29 % · 31 km/h
  6. Sat 31 High 36° · 32 % · 30 km/h
  7. Sun 1 High 38° · 30 % · 36 km/h
  8. Mon 2 High 38° · 34 % · 28 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. Pategi 63,132 ha · 20 %
  2. Ifelodun 62,915 ha · 19 %
  3. Kaiama 28,737 ha · 3.6 %
  4. Baruten 25,045 ha · 2.9 %
  5. Isin 14,744 ha · 26 %
  6. Edu 7,182 ha · 2.9 %
  7. Oke Ero 4,399 ha · 10 %
  8. Ilorin East 1,353 ha · 2.6 %
  9. Irepodun 387 ha · 0.5 %
  10. Ekiti 346 ha · 0.7 %

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
202619167,234 Ifelodun 42,832 ha
202524,080 Pategi 2,056 ha
202412,232 Ifelodun 2,232 ha
20222274 Borgu 250 ha
202112,184 Baruten 2,184 ha
202024,712 Ifelodun 2,545 ha
201922,183 Kaiama 2,047 ha
201812,716 Pategi 2,716 ha
201745,203 Kaiama 3,250 ha
2016617,419 Ifelodun 4,437 ha

All fires in Kwara · 40

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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