Wildfires in Nigeria
Situation over the last 30 days
16 fires detected in Nigeria over the last 30 days, totalling 2,436 hectares of cumulative footprint. The latest satellite detection (NASA FIRMS) dates from September 6 at 04:46 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 6 at 02:23 PM to September 6 at 04:46 PM390 ha
- Borno (NG)from September 6 at 02:59 PM to September 6 at 04:46 PM368 ha
- Borno (NG)from September 6 at 02:11 AM to September 6 at 04:46 PM310 ha
- 13.29°N 13.54°Efrom September 6 at 02:23 PM to September 6 at 04:46 PM250 ha
- 11.85°N 14.26°Efrom September 6 at 01:40 PM to September 6 at 03:21 PM206 ha
- 13.23°N 13.92°Efrom September 6 at 02:33 AM to September 6 at 04:46 PM163 ha
- Borno (NG)from September 6 at 02:13 AM to September 6 at 02:23 PM131 ha
- Akwa Ibom (NG)from September 6 at 02:16 AM to September 6 at 02:16 AM114 ha
- 13.39°N 13.48°Efrom September 6 at 01:40 PM to September 6 at 03:01 PM97 ha
- Borno (NG)from September 6 at 02:11 AM to September 6 at 02:23 PM81 ha
- Imo (NG)from September 6 at 02:35 AM to September 6 at 02:35 AM70 ha
- 13.21°N 13.69°Efrom September 6 at 02:23 PM to September 6 at 03:01 PM55 ha
- Delta (NG)from September 6 at 02:35 AM to September 6 at 02:35 AM54 ha
- Rivers (NG)from September 6 at 02:35 AM to September 6 at 02:35 AM52 ha
- 13.25°N 13.74°Efrom September 6 at 02:23 PM to September 6 at 03:01 PM51 ha
- 13.32°N 13.87°Efrom September 6 at 02:33 AM to September 6 at 02:23 PM44 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 375 m pixel counting whole 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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