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Wildfires in Niger

Niger, Nigeria: 292 fires with a page have entered 14 of its 25 local government areas since 2016, burning 1,466,932 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kontagora in 25 December 2025, with 95,564 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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
1,466,932ha
Since 2016
Of the region
21%
71,437 km²
fires
292
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
14
of 25
Largest fire
95,564ha
Kontagora · 25 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. Fri 23 Low 35° · 37 % · 19 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 33° · 44 % · 19 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 34° · 27 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Low 32° · 53 % · 17 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 32° · 48 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Low 33° · 49 % · 17 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 35° · 43 % · 25 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 33° · 49 % · 18 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Mariga 489,056 ha · 77 %
  2. Rafi 257,433 ha · 67 %
  3. Mashegu 200,229 ha · 23 %
  4. Shiroro 195,047 ha · 42 %
  5. Borgu 147,427 ha · 14 %
  6. Kontagora 101,410 ha · 55 %
  7. Lavun 22,153 ha · 6.0 %
  8. Mokwa 17,290 ha · 4.4 %
  9. Magama 14,397 ha · 3.9 %
  10. Lapai 12,874 ha · 4.2 %
  11. Rijau 6,076 ha · 2.0 %
  12. Wushishi 2,953 ha · 1.6 %

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
202629173,750 Borgu 39,632 ha
202548412,158 Kontagora 95,564 ha
202434132,474 Rafi 15,874 ha
202334175,868 Mariga 20,004 ha
202240133,858 Mariga 11,492 ha
202143203,819 Rafi 23,285 ha
202025106,408 Mariga 26,989 ha
2019832,622 Shiroro 7,516 ha
2018615,042 Borgu 3,898 ha
2017829,212 Shiroro 9,814 ha
20161751,721 Borgu 7,680 ha

All fires in Niger · 292

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).