Wildfires in Oyo
Oyo, Nigeria: 16 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 33 local government areas since 2016, burning 58,416 hectares inside the region. The largest was Olorunsogo in 20 January 2026, with 8,953 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
- 58,416ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 2.1%
- 27,889 km²
- fires
- 16
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 10
- of 33
- Largest fire
- 8,953ha
- Olorunsogo · 20 January 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Low 34° · 38 % · 20 km/h
- Sun 25 Low 33° · 48 % · 23 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 32° · 58 % · 26 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 31° · 62 % · 23 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 32° · 55 % · 37 km/h
- Thu 29 Low 34° · 41 % · 32 km/h
- Fri 30 Moderate 33° · 42 % · 31 km/h
- Sat 31 Low 32° · 52 % · 25 km/h
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The municipalities that burned most
- Olorunsogo 14,731 ha · 9.0 %
- Atisbo 13,893 ha · 5.6 %
- Iwajowa 7,250 ha · 2.9 %
- Ori Ire 7,230 ha · 3.5 %
- Iseyin 6,277 ha · 2.7 %
- Itesiwaju 3,267 ha · 1.9 %
- Ibarapa North 2,935 ha · 2.3 %
- Orelope 2,036 ha · 1.9 %
- Irepo 703 ha · 0.7 %
- Saki East 94 ha · 0.1 %
Largest recorded fires
- 8,953 haOlorunsogo20 January 2026 · 8 days
- 7,304 haOri IreJanuary 2026 · 9 days
- 5,830 haIseyinJanuary 2026 · 10 days
- 4,295 haOlorunsogoJanuary 2016 · 6 days
- 3,678 haIwajowa22 January 2026 · 6 days
- 3,377 haItesiwajuJanuary 2020 · 3 days
- 2,978 haOlorunsogo20 January 2026 · 9 days of 3,143 ha in total
- 2,935 haIbarapa NorthJanuary 2026 · 8 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 | 11 | 43,215 | Olorunsogo 8,953 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 3,377 | Itesiwaju 3,377 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 2,640 | Ori Ire 2,640 ha |
| 2016 | 3 | 9,184 | Olorunsogo 4,295 ha |
All fires in Oyo · 16
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 2,039 haOlorunsogo24 January 2026 · 7 days
- 2,130 haAtisbo24 January 2026 · 5 days
- 2,063 haAtisbo23 January 2026 · 5 days
- 2,935 haIbarapa NorthJanuary 2026 · 8 days
- 3,678 haIwajowa22 January 2026 · 6 days
- 2,728 haIwajowa22 January 2026 · 6 days
- 5,830 haIseyinJanuary 2026 · 10 days
- 8,953 haOlorunsogo20 January 2026 · 8 days
- 7,304 haOri IreJanuary 2026 · 9 days
- 2,978 haOlorunsogo20 January 2026 · 9 days of 3,143 ha in total
- 2,579 haAtisbo17 January 2026 · 11 days
- 3,377 haItesiwajuJanuary 2020 · 3 days
- 2,640 haOri IreFebruary 2019 · 4 days
- 2,522 haAtisboDecember 2016 · 5 days
- 4,295 haOlorunsogoJanuary 2016 · 6 days
- 2,367 haOrelopeJanuary 2016 · 5 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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