Wildfires in Yobe
Yobe, Nigeria: 6 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 17 local government areas since 2016, burning 10,598 hectares inside the region. The largest was Gujba in March 2016, with 2,812 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 31).
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
- 10,598ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.2%
- 46,089 km²
- fires
- 6
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 17
- Largest fire
- 2,812ha
- Gujba · March 2016
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 High 34° · 22 % · 33 km/h
- Sat 24 High 34° · 18 % · 26 km/h
- Sun 25 High 33° · 16 % · 26 km/h
- Mon 26 High 34° · 17 % · 18 km/h
- Tue 27 High 34° · 17 % · 25 km/h
- Wed 28 High 35° · 19 % · 28 km/h
- Thu 29 Very high 35° · 20 % · 38 km/h
- Fri 30 Very high 34° · 18 % · 34 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Gujba 10,598 ha · 3.2 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 6×Gujba10,598 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,812 haGujbaMarch 2016 · 3 days
- 2,507 haGujba24 February 2016 · 1 day of 2,889 ha in total
- 2,075 haGujba23 February 2016 · 2 days
- 2,067 haGujbaNovember 2016 · 2 days
- 809 haKaga2 November 2016 · 2 days of 3,397 ha in total
- 328 haKaga10 March 2016 · 2 days of 2,723 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 | 10,598 | Gujba 2,812 ha |
All fires in Yobe · 6
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).