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Wildfires in Taraba

Taraba, Nigeria: 171 fires with a page have entered 14 of its 16 local government areas since 2016, burning 618,156 hectares inside the region. The largest was Donga in 1 January 2026, with 58,092 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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
618,156ha
Since 2016
Of the region
10%
59,175 km²
fires
171
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
14
of 16
Largest fire
58,092ha
Donga · 1 January 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Low 34° · 49 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Low 33° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Low 33° · 50 % · 17 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 33° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 32° · 57 % · 27 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 32° · 58 % · 22 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 33° · 48 % · 24 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 33° · 50 % · 23 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. Bali 167,865 ha · 17 %
  2. Kurmi 106,823 ha · 24 %
  3. Gashaka 100,215 ha · 12 %
  4. Donga 73,039 ha · 23 %
  5. Karim Lamido 64,836 ha · 11 %
  6. Ussa 31,157 ha · 33 %
  7. Yorro 26,484 ha · 22 %
  8. Gassol 17,508 ha · 3.3 %
  9. Takum 9,824 ha · 3.1 %
  10. Wukari 8,296 ha · 1.9 %
  11. Ibi 6,964 ha · 2.6 %
  12. Sardauna 2,598 ha · 0.5 %

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
202649252,075 Donga 58,092 ha
202530109,612 Gashaka 8,392 ha
20241343,126 Bali 6,544 ha
2023921,977 Kurmi 2,913 ha
20221232,682 Takum 4,266 ha
20211129,394 Gassol 3,960 ha
20201133,305 Kurmi 5,234 ha
20191024,980 Donga 3,198 ha
2018821,601 Yorro 5,494 ha
20171233,816 Gassol 3,375 ha
2016615,587 Karim Lamido 3,487 ha

All fires in Taraba · 171

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).