Wildfires in Osun
Osun, Nigeria: 3 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 30 local government areas since 2016, burning 1,219 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ekiti West in January 2020, with 1,118 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 5).
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
- 1,219ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.1%
- 8,598 km²
- fires
- 3
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 30
- Largest fire
- 1,118ha
- Ekiti West · January 2020
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Low 33° · 50 % · 19 km/h
- Sun 25 Low 33° · 51 % · 17 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 31° · 67 % · 23 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 28° · 75 % · 19 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 32° · 56 % · 25 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 32° · 51 % · 36 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 31° · 63 % · 29 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Oriade 1,219 ha · 2.8 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 3×Oriade1,219 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 1,118 haEkiti WestJanuary 2020 · 10 days of 2,359 ha in total
- 85 haEkiti South-WestJanuary 2016 · 9 days of 2,917 ha in total
- 15 haEkiti South-WestJanuary 2020 · 9 days of 2,023 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 | 1,134 | Ekiti West 1,118 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 85 | Ekiti South-West 85 ha |
All fires in Osun · 3
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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