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Wildfires in Sokoto

Sokoto, Nigeria: 59 fires with a page have entered 10 of its 23 local government areas since 2016, burning 157,848 hectares inside the region. The largest was Dange Shuni in 21 October 2026, with 7,408 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 39).

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
157,848ha
Since 2016
Of the region
5.0%
31,276 km²
fires
59
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
10
of 23
Largest fire
7,408ha
Dange Shuni · 21 October 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 31 High 37° · 15 % · 24 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very high 37° · 19 % · 23 km/h
  3. Mon 2 High 36° · 28 % · 20 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very high 37° · 17 % · 27 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very high 35° · 17 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very high 37° · 14 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very high 36° · 15 % · 29 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very high 36° · 17 % · 27 km/h

Burning now in the region

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Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Tureta 56,504 ha · 30 %
  2. Rabah 21,454 ha · 10 %
  3. Kebbe 19,761 ha · 8.9 %
  4. Binji 16,335 ha · 15 %
  5. Sabon Birni 9,840 ha · 4.3 %
  6. Goronyo 9,759 ha · 4.8 %
  7. Isa 8,907 ha · 4.3 %
  8. Dange Shuni 8,790 ha · 7.8 %
  9. Gudu 6,324 ha · 2.1 %
  10. Wurno 174 ha · 0.3 %

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
20261754,847 Dange Shuni 7,408 ha
20252051,441 Tureta 4,947 ha
202439,229 Tureta 5,065 ha
2023513,589 Rabah 4,106 ha
202239,807 Binji 7,045 ha
2021612,512 Tureta 3,177 ha
202012,966 Kebbe 2,966 ha
201943,457 Rabah 2,264 ha

All fires in Sokoto · 59

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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