Burned area
satellite only66,082ha
Union of 4 GWIS (Copernicus) perimeters: overlapping areas count once.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 4 Nov 2025 – 12 Jan 2026
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No official record is matched to this page to compare it with.
SD · Sudan · –
Abyei PCA area fire, 4 November 2025 Abyei PCA area, Al Dibab
Out · last detection 13 Jan 2026, 11:37 UTC
The fire started on 4 November 2025 in Abyei PCA area, Sudan, and satellites saw it burning for 70 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 66,082 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
This page is probably a fire complex, not a single fire. GWIS merges into one perimeter the fires that touch over weeks, which in large burning seasons can join dozens of separate fires. The total area is reliable; the origin and dates refer to the whole complex.
Other fire pages in the same area and on the same dates:
- 42,890 haAbiemnhom12 November 2025 · 68 days
- 17,663 haMayom8 November 2025 · 55 days
- 15,166 haAbyei PCA area10 November 2025 · 26 days
- 7,812 haAl Dibab14 November 2025 · 36 days
- 7,625 haAbyei PCA area12 November 2025 · 13 days
- 7,561 haAbyei PCA area19 November 2025 · 10 days
- 5,705 haAbiemnhom28 November 2025 · 15 days
- 4,013 haAbyei PCA area10 November 2025 · 8 days
The largest in Sudan in 2025, of 342.
GWIS near-real-time perimeter, from the layer that changed in August 2025: this fire is not compared with fires from earlier years, because since then the GWIS layer gives more and larger perimeters.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only70days
4 Nov 2025 to 12 Jan 2026: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 13 Jan 2026, 11:37 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only4 Nov 2025
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 4 Nov 2025
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only3,003
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 137 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP + NOAA-20)
- Date
- 4 Nov 2025 – 12 Jan 2026
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only2,104MW
Total radiative power on 13 November 2025; hotspots that day: 141.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 13 Nov 2025
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model30.1FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 14.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 4 Nov 2025, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model37.6°C · 15% RH
High of 37.6 °C and minimum humidity of 15% on 8 January 2026; gusts of 40 km/h on 30 December 2025.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 4 Nov 2025 – 12 Jan 2026
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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logLast day with fire: 6 January 2026 → 12 January 2026.
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logStart date: 8 November 2025 → 4 November 2025.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
What was saved on 27 October 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 66,995 ha
- Dates
- 4 Nov 2025 – 12 Jan 2026
- Name
- Abyei PCA area
- Official record
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https://worldfires.org/en/fire/abyei-pca-area-2025-11-5?v=2026-10-27A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
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CSV for this fire abyei-pca-area-2025-11-5.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-04 | 20 | 147 | 36 | 25.7 | 23 | 17.2 | 28.1 | 0 | 30.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-05 | 15 | 83 | 35.2 | 24.6 | 29 | 11.7 | 22.7 | 0 | 27 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-06 | 10 | 375 | 36 | 23.4 | 18 | 11.4 | 27.4 | 0 | 29.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-07 | 3 | 5 | 36.5 | 22.8 | 16 | 12.4 | 28.4 | 0 | 33 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-08 | 26 | 239 | 36.4 | 22.2 | 14 | 12.3 | 28.1 | 0 | 35 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-09 | 3 | 92 | 35.7 | 22.4 | 16 | 12.2 | 27 | 0 | 35.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-10 | 4 | 21 | 35.5 | 21.1 | 19 | 9.2 | 19.4 | 0 | 34.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-11 | 8 | 40 | 36.3 | 22.3 | 22 | 9.5 | 23 | 0 | 34.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-12 | 9 | 37 | 36.5 | 23.8 | 21 | 9.2 | 21.2 | 0 | 34.8 | alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-13 | 141 | 2,104 | 36.6 | 24.2 | 17 | 14.4 | 31.3 | 0 | 40.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-14 | 230 | 1,300 | 36.3 | 24.8 | 14 | 16 | 33.5 | 0 | 42.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-15 | 106 | 628 | 33.6 | 21.8 | 14 | 18.1 | 35.6 | 0 | 45.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-16 | 51 | 275 | 33.1 | 20.5 | 17 | 16.3 | 32.8 | 0 | 44.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-17 | 31 | 172 | 34.6 | 21.8 | 16 | 14.5 | 30.2 | 0 | 43.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-18 | 31 | 222 | 36.1 | 22.2 | 20 | 14.7 | 32.4 | 0 | 44 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-19 | 148 | 1,706 | 36.6 | 25.8 | 20 | 19.6 | 37.8 | 0 | 50 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-20 | 147 | 1,421 | 36.4 | 24.8 | 18 | 14.8 | 31.3 | 0 | 45.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-21 | 81 | 916 | 35.8 | 23.5 | 15 | 11.7 | 27 | 0 | 42.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-22 | 60 | 702 | 36.3 | 22.8 | 17 | 14.7 | 32 | 0 | 46.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-23 | 26 | 241 | 36.1 | 22.6 | 21 | 8.4 | 20.5 | 0 | 39.5 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-24 | 7 | 48 | 37.1 | 22.8 | 18 | 9.8 | 23.4 | 0 | 41.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-25 | 54 | 523 | 36.8 | 23.5 | 16 | 17.1 | 36 | 0 | 49.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-26 | 150 | 1,683 | 36.5 | 23.7 | 14 | 13.2 | 29.2 | 0 | 45.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-27 | 9 | 10 | 36.3 | 23.3 | 14 | 12.5 | 28.8 | 0 | 45.7 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-28 | 94 | 1,185 | 36.3 | 22.7 | 15 | 12.7 | 28.1 | 0 | 46.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-29 | 107 | 1,082 | 36.9 | 23.5 | 17 | 12.3 | 27.7 | 0 | 46.4 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-11-30 | 117 | 642 | 37.1 | 23.7 | 17 | 16.6 | 36 | 0 | 51.7 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-01 | 58 | 441 | 36.9 | 23.8 | 17 | 15.9 | 33.8 | 0 | 51.4 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-02 | 86 | 779 | 36.9 | 24.5 | 18 | 17 | 35.6 | 0 | 53.1 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-03 | 50 | 426 | 36.3 | 23.7 | 17 | 12.5 | 29.2 | 0 | 48.3 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-12-04 | 46 | 424 | 37 | 24.7 | 15 | 11.9 | 24.5 | 0 | 48 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-12-05 | 107 | 1,021 | 37.2 | 22.6 | 15 | 12.5 | 26.6 | 0 | 49 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-12-06 | 30 | 182 | 37.3 | 22.7 | 16 | 11.2 | 22.3 | 0 | 47.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-12-07 | 13 | 68 | 36.1 | 23.9 | 19 | 9.6 | 20.2 | 0 | 45.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-12-08 | 15 | 101 | 37.3 | 23.9 | 19 | 10.9 | 25.9 | 0 | 46.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-12-09 | 23 | 102 | 36.1 | 23.2 | 15 | 17.9 | 36 | 0 | 55.4 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-10 | 2 | 15 | 34.8 | 22 | 14 | 16.4 | 33.8 | 0 | 53.9 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-11 | 27 | 397 | 34.7 | 21.3 | 15 | 16.7 | 35.3 | 0 | 54.6 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-12 | 22 | 218 | 35.5 | 20.9 | 14 | 17.1 | 34.9 | 0 | 55.4 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-13 | 17 | 97 | 35.4 | 20.3 | 12 | 17.9 | 35.3 | 0 | 56.8 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-14 | 44 | 307 | 35.1 | 19.4 | 16 | 15.8 | 31.7 | 0 | 54.3 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-15 | 74 | 1,300 | 33.7 | 20.3 | 12 | 19.2 | 35.6 | 0 | 59 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-16 | 64 | 298 | 32.3 | 18.6 | 13 | 18.3 | 34.2 | 0 | 58.1 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-17 | 37 | 379 | 32.9 | 18.1 | 13 | 16.5 | 33.5 | 0 | 56.1 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-18 | 79 | 564 | 32.9 | 18.4 | 12 | 18.1 | 36.4 | 0 | 58.5 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-19 | 52 | 528 | 34.2 | 19 | 13 | 17.6 | 32 | 0 | 58.1 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-20 | 37 | 274 | 34 | 19.2 | 15 | 13.6 | 28.8 | 0 | 52.3 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-21 | 45 | 1,235 | 34.4 | 18 | 11 | 11.7 | 25.6 | 0 | 50.3 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-22 | 35 | 325 | 34.8 | 19.1 | 12 | 12.1 | 25.2 | 0 | 51 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-23 | 19 | 118 | 35.7 | 20.7 | 14 | 11.9 | 26.6 | 0 | 51 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-24 | 17 | 72 | 36.1 | 21.5 | 16 | 10.4 | 23.8 | 0 | 49.2 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2025-12-25 | 40 | 273 | 37.2 | 22.4 | 14 | 13.2 | 29.9 | 0 | 52.7 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-26 | 43 | 721 | 36.7 | 21.3 | 16 | 13.8 | 29.5 | 0 | 53.6 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-27 | 14 | 108 | 36.6 | 21.6 | 14 | 16.2 | 33.1 | 0 | 56.9 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-28 | 17 | 162 | 35.7 | 20.4 | 9 | 16.9 | 34.2 | 0 | 58 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-29 | 0 | 0 | 35.9 | 20.3 | 7 | 16.1 | 31 | 0 | 58.4 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-30 | 15 | 143 | 34.9 | 20.8 | 7 | 19.6 | 39.6 | 0 | 63.5 | extremo | 1 |
| 2025-12-31 | 20 | 214 | 33.9 | 18.4 | 8 | 15.7 | 32.4 | 0 | 58.4 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-01-01 | 40 | 190 | 35.4 | 17.9 | 8 | 12 | 27 | 0 | 54 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-01-02 | 24 | 295 | 36.6 | 19.5 | 13 | 11.8 | 26.6 | 0 | 53.9 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-01-03 | 10 | 118 | 36.5 | 21.5 | 10 | 14.7 | 30.6 | 0 | 57.8 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-01-04 | 16 | 198 | 36.6 | 20.6 | 13 | 19.4 | 38.2 | 0 | 64.1 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-01-05 | 15 | 55 | 36.1 | 22.1 | 12 | 17.7 | 35.3 | 0 | 61.9 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-01-06 | 8 | 55 | 36.1 | 20.9 | 14 | 16.6 | 33.8 | 0 | 59.1 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-01-07 | 21 | 187 | 36.2 | 20.8 | 15 | 14.9 | 31 | 0 | 55.9 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-01-08 | 14 | 116 | 37.6 | 21.1 | 15 | 12.9 | 26.6 | 0 | 53.6 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-01-09 | 8 | 32 | 37.4 | 21.7 | 13 | 15.9 | 33.1 | 0 | 57.7 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-01-10 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 21.8 | 14 | 19.9 | 39.2 | 0 | 63.2 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-01-11 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 21.5 | 14 | 15.8 | 30.2 | 0 | 57.6 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-01-12 | 6 | 50 | 36.4 | 21.3 | 15 | 14.3 | 30.2 | 0 | 55.2 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-01-13 | 5 | 32 | 36.2 | 22.1 | 15 | 21.4 | 40 | 0 | 64.5 | extremo | 0 |
| 2026-01-14 | 0 | 0 | 35.3 | 21.3 | 15 | 21.3 | 40.7 | 0 | 63.6 | extremo | 0 |
| 2026-01-15 | 0 | 0 | 33.9 | 20.1 | 16 | 20.9 | 38.2 | 0 | 61.1 | extremo | 0 |
| 2026-01-16 | 0 | 0 | 33.5 | 19.1 | 12 | 20.3 | 35.3 | 0 | 60.5 | extremo | 0 |
| 2026-01-17 | 0 | 0 | 35.7 | 18.9 | 11 | 13.7 | 29.9 | 0 | 52.3 | extremo | 0 |
| 2026-01-18 | 0 | 0 | 36.6 | 19.3 | 12 | 14.1 | 29.2 | 0 | 53.1 | extremo | 0 |
| 2026-01-19 | 0 | 0 | 37.1 | 20.2 | 12 | 14.9 | 31.3 | 0 | 54.3 | extremo | 0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 0 | 0 | 37.4 | 21.9 | 12 | 14.1 | 29.5 | 0 | 53.5 | extremo | 0 |
| 2026-01-21 | 0 | 0 | 37.6 | 22.4 | 14 | 13.8 | 29.2 | 0 | 53.4 | extremo | 0 |
| 2026-01-22 | 0 | 0 | 38.9 | 23 | 13 | 10.5 | 26.3 | 0 | 49.7 | muy_alto | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 66,082ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 70days
- 4 Nov 2025 – 12 Jan 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- localities
- Started on
- 4 Nov
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 3,003
- in a single hotspot: 137 MW
- Danger at start
- 30
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 419MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
4 Nov12 Jan
13 Jan 2026
How it evolved, day by day
13 Nov
2 Dec
16 Dec
31 Dec
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
38°high
40km/h · peak gust
7%lowest humidity
It had gone 14 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
41% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 4,522 ha in 2016, 5,441 ha in 2017, 422 ha in 2018, 7,234 ha in 2019, 4,191 ha in 2020, 10,834 ha in 2021, 2,867 ha in 2022, 1,350 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 27,036 ha that had burned before.
- 6,672 ha Abyei PCA area fire, November 2021 10,897 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,943 ha Al Dibab fire, December 2019 3,537 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,474 ha Al Dibab fire, December 2019 2,055 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,331 ha Abyei PCA area fire, October 2016 2,560 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 877 ha Abyei PCA area fire, November 2022 2,482 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 671 ha Abyei PCA area fire, December 2019 3,206 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 565 ha Abyei PCA area fire, November 2017 3,350 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 368 ha Abyei PCA area fire, November 2021 4,354 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Abyei PCA area where it started50,680 ha reached on 4 Nov4.8 %
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16,728 ha reached on 13 Nov1.8 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
The weather day by day
ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Nov | 36.0 °C | 23 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 5 Nov | 35.2 °C | 29 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 6 Nov | 36.0 °C | 18 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 7 Nov | 36.5 °C | 16 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 8 Nov | 36.4 °C | 14 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 9 Nov | 35.7 °C | 16 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 10 Nov | 35.5 °C | 19 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 11 Nov | 36.3 °C | 22 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 12 Nov | 36.5 °C | 21 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 13 Nov | 36.6 °C | 17 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 14 Nov | 36.3 °C | 14 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 15 Nov | 33.6 °C | 14 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 16 Nov | 33.1 °C | 17 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 17 Nov | 34.6 °C | 16 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 18 Nov | 36.1 °C | 20 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 19 Nov | 36.6 °C | 20 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 20 Nov | 36.4 °C | 18 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 21 Nov | 35.8 °C | 15 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 22 Nov | 36.3 °C | 17 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 23 Nov | 36.1 °C | 21 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 24 Nov | 37.1 °C | 18 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 25 Nov | 36.8 °C | 16 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 26 Nov | 36.5 °C | 14 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 27 Nov | 36.3 °C | 14 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 28 Nov | 36.3 °C | 15 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 29 Nov | 36.9 °C | 17 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 30 Nov | 37.1 °C | 17 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 1 Dec | 36.9 °C | 17 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 2 Dec | 36.9 °C | 18 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 3 Dec | 36.3 °C | 17 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 4 Dec | 37.0 °C | 15 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 5 Dec | 37.2 °C | 15 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 6 Dec | 37.3 °C | 16 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 7 Dec | 36.1 °C | 19 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 8 Dec | 37.3 °C | 19 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 9 Dec | 36.1 °C | 15 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 10 Dec | 34.8 °C | 14 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 11 Dec | 34.7 °C | 15 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 12 Dec | 35.5 °C | 14 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 13 Dec | 35.4 °C | 12 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 14 Dec | 35.1 °C | 16 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 15 Dec | 33.7 °C | 12 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 59 |
| 16 Dec | 32.3 °C | 13 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 17 Dec | 32.9 °C | 13 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 18 Dec | 32.9 °C | 12 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 19 Dec | 34.2 °C | 13 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 20 Dec | 34.0 °C | 15 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 21 Dec | 34.4 °C | 11 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 22 Dec | 34.8 °C | 12 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 23 Dec | 35.7 °C | 14 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 24 Dec | 36.1 °C | 16 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 25 Dec | 37.2 °C | 14 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 26 Dec | 36.7 °C | 16 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 27 Dec | 36.6 °C | 14 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 28 Dec | 35.7 °C | 9 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 29 Dec | 35.9 °C | 7 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 30 Dec | 34.9 °C | 7 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 64 |
| 31 Dec | 33.9 °C | 8 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 1 Jan | 35.4 °C | 8 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 2 Jan | 36.6 °C | 13 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 3 Jan | 36.5 °C | 10 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 4 Jan | 36.6 °C | 13 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 64 |
| 5 Jan | 36.1 °C | 12 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 62 |
| 6 Jan | 36.1 °C | 14 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 59 |
| 7 Jan | 36.2 °C | 15 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 8 Jan | 37.6 °C | 15 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 9 Jan | 37.4 °C | 13 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 10 Jan | 36.0 °C | 14 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 63 |
| 11 Jan | 36.0 °C | 14 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 12 Jan | 36.4 °C | 15 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 13 Jan after | 36.2 °C | 15 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 64 |
| 14 Jan after | 35.3 °C | 15 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 64 |
| 15 Jan after | 33.9 °C | 16 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 61 |
| 16 Jan after | 33.5 °C | 12 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 60 |
| 17 Jan after | 35.7 °C | 11 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 18 Jan after | 36.6 °C | 12 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 19 Jan after | 37.1 °C | 12 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 20 Jan after | 37.4 °C | 12 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 21 Jan after | 37.6 °C | 14 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 22 Jan after | 38.9 °C | 13 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
Before and after, from space
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Before · 28 Oct 2025
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 16 November 2025 the air beside the fire reached 81 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 51: 3.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak81 µg/m³
Days over the guideline55 days
PM10202 µg/m³
Optical depth0.81
WHO 15
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Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
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Detections table · 3,003Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Abyei PCA area fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 4 November 2025 to 12 January 2026 (70 days). The perimeter dates it from 8 November 2025 to 6 January 2026.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 66,082 hectares (660.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Abyei PCA area (50,680 ha, 4.8 %); Al Dibab (16,728 ha, 1.8 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 37.6 °C, humidity dropped to 7 % and gusts hit 40 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 64, class Extreme.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Sudan (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
Where to verify it
A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 6 January 2026 → 12 January 2026.
- Start date: 8 November 2025 → 4 November 2025.
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This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 4 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 8 November 2025 to 6 January 2026. 3,003 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
Where this data comes from
The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.