Wildfires in Nasarawa
Nasarawa, Nigeria: 26 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 13 local government areas since 2016, burning 73,246 hectares inside the region. The largest was Toto in 11 January 2021, with 11,066 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).
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
- 73,246ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.8%
- 26,423 km²
- fires
- 26
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 8
- of 13
- Largest fire
- 11,066ha
- Toto · 11 January 2021
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 31 Low 35° · 45 % · 25 km/h
- Sun 1 Low 34° · 47 % · 21 km/h
- Mon 2 Low 35° · 45 % · 16 km/h
- Tue 3 Moderate 35° · 43 % · 17 km/h
- Wed 4 Moderate 34° · 47 % · 19 km/h
- Thu 5 Moderate 35° · 44 % · 19 km/h
- Fri 6 Moderate 34° · 49 % · 22 km/h
- Sat 7 Moderate 36° · 45 % · 21 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
Largest recorded fires
- 11,066 haToto11 January 2021 · 22 days
- 7,617 haTotoJanuary 2022 · 16 days
- 5,530 haNasarawaFebruary 2021 · 20 days
- 3,167 haNasarawaFebruary 2023 · 11 days
- 3,139 haBokkos2 January 2026 · 13 days of 3,467 ha in total
- 2,904 haObiJanuary 2018 · 6 days
- 2,640 haTotoJanuary 2020 · 15 days
- 2,603 haObiDecember 2017 · 18 days
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 9 | 18,227 | Bokkos 3,139 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 1,091 | Guma 1,091 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 2,287 | Awe 2,287 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 3,167 | Nasarawa 3,167 ha |
| 2022 | 2 | 9,979 | Toto 7,617 ha |
| 2021 | 7 | 25,779 | Toto 11,066 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 2,640 | Toto 2,640 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 2,136 | Nasarawa 2,136 ha |
| 2018 | 1 | 2,904 | Obi 2,904 ha |
| 2017 | 1 | 2,603 | Obi 2,603 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 2,433 | Awe 2,433 ha |
All fires in Nasarawa · 26
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 1,091 haGwer WestJanuary 2026 · 18 days of 2,087 ha in total
- 2,266 haAwe4 January 2026 · 6 days
- 2,025 haDoma3 January 2026 · 14 days of 2,704 ha in total
- 2,267 haAwe3 January 2026 · 13 days
- 378 haBokkos3 January 2026 · 8 days of 2,712 ha in total
- 2,168 haWambaJanuary 2026 · 5 days
- 2,419 haDoma3 January 2026 · 8 days
- 2,474 haKeanaJanuary 2026 · 8 days of 3,996 ha in total
- 3,139 haBokkos2 January 2026 · 13 days of 3,467 ha in total
- 1,091 haGuma29 December 2025 · 22 days of 13,619 ha in total
- 2,287 haAweJanuary 2024 · 18 days
- 3,167 haNasarawaFebruary 2023 · 11 days
- 2,362 haNasarawaJanuary 2022 · 12 days
- 7,617 haTotoJanuary 2022 · 16 days
- 5,530 haNasarawaFebruary 2021 · 20 days
- 1,874 haToto16 January 2021 · 17 days of 3,350 ha in total
- 2,117 haToto11 January 2021 · 16 days
- 2,394 haToto11 January 2021 · 13 days
- 11,066 haToto11 January 2021 · 22 days
- 444 haAgatu10 January 2021 · 18 days of 2,034 ha in total
- 2,355 haAweJanuary 2021 · 25 days
- 2,640 haTotoJanuary 2020 · 15 days
- 2,136 haNasarawaFebruary 2019 · 6 days
- 2,904 haObiJanuary 2018 · 6 days
- 2,603 haObiDecember 2017 · 18 days
- 2,433 haAweJanuary 2016 · 18 days
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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