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Wildfires in Plateau

Plateau, Nigeria: 39 fires with a page have entered 12 of its 17 local government areas since 2016, burning 165,325 hectares inside the region. The largest was Wase in 11 November 2025, with 30,914 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 14).

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
165,325ha
Since 2016
Of the region
6.3%
26,182 km²
fires
39
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
12
of 17
Largest fire
30,914ha
Wase · 11 November 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Moderate 32° · 28 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Moderate 31° · 30 % · 20 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Moderate 31° · 33 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Moderate 29° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Moderate 31° · 23 % · 37 km/h
  6. Thu 29 High 32° · 23 % · 60 km/h
  7. Fri 30 High 32° · 20 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Moderate 32° · 21 % · 27 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. Wase 105,610 ha · 22 %
  2. Kanam 21,691 ha · 7.9 %
  3. Langtang South 9,355 ha · 7.7 %
  4. Mikang 7,767 ha · 10 %
  5. Qua'An Pan 7,311 ha · 2.8 %
  6. Bokkos 4,863 ha · 3.0 %
  7. Kanke 3,156 ha · 3.6 %
  8. Bassa 2,706 ha · 1.8 %
  9. Pankshin 1,298 ha · 0.9 %
  10. Jos South 853 ha · 1.5 %
  11. Shendam 364 ha · 0.1 %
  12. Riyom 351 ha · 0.4 %

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
2026719,448 Langtang South 4,722 ha
20251597,634 Wase 30,914 ha
202338,944 Wase 3,864 ha
2022411,430 Kanam 5,256 ha
202012,555 Mikang 2,555 ha
201936,711 Langtang South 2,487 ha
201713,154 Wase 3,154 ha
2016515,449 Mikang 3,830 ha

All fires in Plateau · 39

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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