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Wildfires in Zamfara

Zamfara, Nigeria: 254 fires with a page have entered 14 of its 14 local government areas since 2016, burning 842,123 hectares inside the region. The largest was Maru in 7 December 2016, with 43,374 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: high (FWI 27).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

These figures leave out one provisional page, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

hectares burned
842,123ha
Since 2016
Of the region
24%
34,503 km²
fires
254
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
14
of 14
Largest fire
43,374ha
Maru · 7 December 2016
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 35° · 24 % · 13 km/h
  2. Sun 1 High 36° · 24 % · 16 km/h
  3. Mon 2 High 35° · 35 % · 15 km/h
  4. Tue 3 High 36° · 22 % · 25 km/h
  5. Wed 4 High 35° · 20 % · 31 km/h
  6. Thu 5 High 36° · 19 % · 31 km/h
  7. Fri 6 High 36° · 19 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 7 High 36° · 19 % · 21 km/h

Burning now in the region

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Maru 352,432 ha · 47 %
  2. Anka 103,699 ha · 40 %
  3. Gummi 101,747 ha · 34 %
  4. Bukkuyum 96,824 ha · 26 %
  5. Maradun 45,421 ha · 17 %
  6. Talata Mafara 29,411 ha · 19 %
  7. Bakura 27,944 ha · 16 %
  8. Tsafe 21,281 ha · 11 %
  9. Gusau 18,234 ha · 8.9 %
  10. Birnin Magaji-Kiyaw 17,085 ha · 14 %
  11. Bungudu 12,180 ha · 5.8 %
  12. Zurmi 9,018 ha · 3.6 %

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
20262260,997 Bukkuyum 4,792 ha
202553166,400 Bukkuyum 8,379 ha
20241743,066 Bukkuyum 5,090 ha
20232050,342 Bukkuyum 5,153 ha
20221854,184 Gummi 12,908 ha
202136111,925 Gummi 16,672 ha
20201971,710 Maru 14,842 ha
20191752,845 Bakura 6,690 ha
2018620,528 Anka 4,706 ha
20171673,345 Maru 15,939 ha
201631140,407 Maru 43,374 ha

All fires in Zamfara · 255

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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