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Wildfires in Sudan

1,632 fires over 2,000 hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS since 2016, adding up to 6,167,347 hectares burned across 99 localities.

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the entry totals, but they are in the GWIS yearly series.

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

The season, week by week

Copernicus GWIS

Sudan, at this point in the year: 1,506,675 hectares, 1.1 times the 2012–2025 average.

2026 average 2012–2025 lowest and highest

2012–2026

Yearly average 2016–20254,032,139 ha

Worst year2021 5,169,236 ha

With a page here1,632 since 2016

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›See the year-by-year table

Year	Fires	hectares	Source
2026	4,208	1,536,605	GWIS
2025	10,707	4,171,175	GWIS
2024	8,615	3,489,206	GWIS
2023	11,258	4,266,746	GWIS
2022	9,083	3,295,215	GWIS
2021	13,255	5,169,236	GWIS
2020	12,710	5,028,692	GWIS
2019	10,250	4,095,603	GWIS
2018	6,421	2,106,794	GWIS
2017	10,136	4,288,099	GWIS
2016	10,047	4,410,625	GWIS
2015	10,206	4,200,200	GWIS
2014	10,435	4,360,611	GWIS
2013	11,508	4,705,671	GWIS
2012	10,879	4,938,717	GWIS

National estimates from Copernicus GWIS, rebuilt from heat detections since 2012.

Hectares with a perimeter estimated by GWIS by the fire’s starting month, and the largest fire of each year.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Σ	Largest of the year
2026	227k	120k	46k	37k	5k	2k	3k	413k			851,100	Al Dibab 72,184 ha
2025	55k	60k	24k	3k	2k	5k	20k	216k	845k	405k	1,635,362	Abyei PCA area 66,995 ha
2024	36k	7k	17k					39k	71k	150k	319,401	Ghadeer 19,334 ha
2023	22k	8k	4k					11k	143k	113k	301,055	Al Radoum 10,375 ha
2022	37k	18k	29k	2k				9k	42k	55k	192,851	Ad Dinder 8,904 ha
2021	89k	33k	17k	3k	5k			13k	361k	129k	649,817	Al Leri 88,958 ha
2020	65k	67k	23k	5k				5k	249k	82k	495,998	Al Radoum 17,599 ha
2019	33k	29k	9k	5k					188k	176k	439,547	Ghadeer 17,958 ha
2018	5k		8k	7k				24k	23k	43k	111,532	Al Radoum 10,184 ha
2017	26k	23k	5k	11k				44k	351k	58k	519,160	Abyei PCA area 30,332 ha
2016	46k	25k	10k	2k				90k	279k	198k	651,524	Al Radoum 20,838 ha