Wildfires in Nigeria
Situation over the last 30 days
479 fires detected in Nigeria over the last 30 days, totalling 287,817 hectares of cumulative footprint. The latest satellite detection (NASA FIRMS) dates from October 22 at 01:57 PM.
The savannas in Nigeria burn every dry season, over huge areas but with fast, low-intensity grass fires, largely lit for farming and grazing. Detections are numerous; destructive forest fires are rare.
- Borno (NG)from September 23 at 02:06 PM to October 22 at 01:57 PM64,983 ha
- Borno (NG)from September 28 at 02:12 PM to October 22 at 01:57 PM43,385 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 7 at 01:57 PM to October 22 at 01:57 PM19,151 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 8 at 02:23 PM to October 22 at 01:57 PM11,778 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 17 at 01:51 PM to October 22 at 01:57 PM9,829 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 10 at 02:23 PM to October 22 at 01:57 PM9,154 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 9 at 02:06 PM to October 22 at 01:57 PM4,602 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 17 at 10:16 AM to October 22 at 01:57 PM4,280 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 10 at 02:23 PM to October 22 at 01:57 PM4,242 ha
- Sokoto (NG)from October 17 at 02:55 PM to October 22 at 03:54 AM2,974 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 9 at 02:06 PM to October 21 at 02:38 PM2,854 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 13 at 01:47 PM to October 22 at 01:57 PM2,614 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 11 at 03:08 PM to October 22 at 01:57 PM2,461 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 9 at 03:01 PM to October 22 at 01:57 PM2,357 ha
- Katsina (NG)from October 13 at 02:32 PM to October 22 at 10:13 AM2,228 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 10 at 02:23 PM to October 22 at 01:57 PM2,078 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 7 at 01:57 PM to October 22 at 01:57 PM2,070 ha
- Katsina (NG)from October 20 at 05:06 PM to October 22 at 10:13 AM2,048 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 13 at 02:29 PM to October 22 at 01:57 PM1,902 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 9 at 03:01 PM to October 22 at 01:57 PM1,893 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 19 at 09:56 AM to October 22 at 01:57 PM1,878 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 6 at 10:04 PM to October 21 at 02:38 PM1,668 ha
- Zamfara (NG)from October 17 at 02:12 PM to October 21 at 05:24 PM1,631 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 16 at 01:34 PM to October 21 at 02:36 PM1,608 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 18 at 01:51 PM to October 21 at 02:38 PM1,312 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 11 at 02:23 PM to October 21 at 02:36 PM1,244 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 10 at 01:47 PM to October 11 at 03:08 PM1,167 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 9 at 02:06 PM to October 19 at 03:09 AM1,154 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 14 at 02:12 PM to October 22 at 01:57 PM1,077 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 19 at 04:15 PM to October 21 at 02:35 AM1,021 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 7 at 04:44 PM to October 22 at 03:09 AM989 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 17 at 01:51 PM to October 19 at 04:10 PM978 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 9 at 02:42 PM to October 22 at 01:57 PM943 ha
- Sokoto (NG)from October 16 at 02:12 PM to October 17 at 02:55 PM904 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 15 at 01:51 PM to October 20 at 04:46 PM894 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 18 at 02:36 PM to October 22 at 01:57 PM893 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 13 at 01:47 PM to October 21 at 02:38 PM890 ha
- Sokoto (NG)from October 13 at 03:08 PM to October 21 at 05:24 PM825 ha
- Katsina (NG)from October 18 at 02:45 AM to October 22 at 03:09 AM809 ha
- Borno (NG)from October 9 at 02:06 PM to October 21 at 02:36 PM786 ha
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These figures come from satellite thermal detection and are not an official tally: only the emergency services of the country concerned are authoritative. The detected footprint overstates the area actually burnt, a pixel counting whole (375 m for VIIRS, 1 km for MODIS) when only an edge burns. A freshly detected fire may not yet carry a place name and will then not appear in this list, though it is already on the map.
Learn more: what a forest fire is and how satellites detect it
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