Wildfires in Ogun
Ogun, Nigeria: 7 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 20 local government areas since 2016, burning 18,431 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ogun Waterside in April 2022, with 3,517 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).
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
- 18,431ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 1.1%
- 16,840 km²
- fires
- 7
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 20
- Largest fire
- 3,517ha
- Ogun Waterside · April 2022
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Very low 33° · 57 % · 22 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 32° · 66 % · 20 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 30° · 74 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 30° · 81 % · 27 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 31° · 65 % · 26 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 32° · 57 % · 31 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 31° · 77 % · 25 km/h
- Sat 31 Very low 32° · 63 % · 30 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Yewa North 13,790 ha · 7.6 %
- Ogun Waterside 3,517 ha · 3.4 %
- Imeko Afon 1,124 ha · 0.6 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 5×Yewa North13,790 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 3,517 haOgun WatersideApril 2022 · 6 days
- 3,376 haYewa NorthFebruary 2024 · 5 days
- 2,832 haYewa NorthFebruary 2026 · 8 days
- 2,785 haYewa NorthJanuary 2026 · 9 days
- 2,706 haYewa NorthJanuary 2025 · 8 days
- 2,092 haYewa NorthDecember 2022 · 4 days
- 1,124 haImeko AfonJanuary 2026 · 5 days of 2,465 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 6,741 | Yewa North 2,832 ha |
| 2025 | 1 | 2,706 | Yewa North 2,706 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 3,376 | Yewa North 3,376 ha |
| 2022 | 2 | 5,609 | Ogun Waterside 3,517 ha |
All fires in Ogun · 7
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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