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Wildfires in Nigeria
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Regions
- Abia State1 fire
- Adamawa State1 fire
- Akwa Ibom State1 fire
- Anambra Stateno fires now
- Bauchi Stateno fires now
- Bayelsa State5 fires
- Benue Stateno fires now
- Borno State55 fires
- Cross River Stateno fires now
- Delta State2 fires
- Ebonyi Stateno fires now
- Edo State6 fires
- Ekiti State1 fire
- Enugu Stateno fires now
- Federal Capital Territoryno fires now
- Gombe State1 fire
- Imo Stateno fires now
- Jigawa Stateno fires now
- Kaduna Stateno fires now
- Kano State2 fires
- Katsina Stateno fires now
- Kebbi Stateno fires now
- Kogi Stateno fires now
- Kwara Stateno fires now
- Lagos2 fires
- Nasarawa Stateno fires now
- Niger Stateno fires now
- Ogun Stateno fires now
- Ondo State1 fire
- Osun Stateno fires now
- Oyo Stateno fires now
- Plateau Stateno fires now
- Rivers State4 fires
- Sokoto State3 fires
- Taraba Stateno fires now
- Yobe State1 fire
- Zamfara Stateno fires now
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 649,600 km² of Nigeria at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 251,350 km², ranking 11th of 200 countries.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2017, with 279,230 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 193,500 km². The 2021–2025 average is 8.7% higher than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
December, January and February together hold 80% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 25 January 2020, with detections in 15,514 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 649,600 km² with at least one detection, 74% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 94,500 | 15% |
| 2 years | 72,370 | 11% |
| 3 to 5 years | 183,210 | 28% |
| 6 to 10 years | 244,690 | 38% |
| 11 years or more | 54,830 | 8.4% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 10.75, 6.75 and holds 1.0% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 193,500 | 217,656 |
| 2013 | 238,860 | 287,708 |
| 2014 | 239,340 | 291,261 |
| 2015 | 250,570 | 312,455 |
| 2016 | 267,530 | 338,685 |
| 2017 | 279,230 | 354,042 |
| 2018 | 258,770 | 318,184 |
| 2019 | 238,840 | 293,400 |
| 2020 | 259,240 | 333,288 |
| 2021 | 260,140 | 334,733 |
| 2022 | 267,110 | 347,897 |
| 2023 | 238,880 | 292,648 |
| 2024 | 274,770 | 351,447 |
| 2025 | 252,170 | 312,537 |
Nearby countries
- Democratic Republic of the Congo898,730 km² in an average year
- Angola616,940 km² in an average year
- Zambia445,810 km² in an average year
- Mozambique404,050 km² in an average year
- Central African Republic340,550 km² in an average year
- South Sudan321,060 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
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What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
