Ad Dinder fire, 2 December 2023 Ad Dinder
The fire started on 2 December 2023 in Ad Dinder, Sudan, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,163 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 114th largest in Sennar since 2016 (of 130 with a page). Number 78 in Sudan in 2023, of 95.
The power measured by the satellite is low (27.2 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.
- Burnt area
- 2,163ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 3days
- 2 Dec 2023 – 4 Dec 2023
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- localities
- Started on
- 2 Dec
- 2023
- Heat detections
- 83
- in a single hotspot: 27 MW
- Energy released
- 352MW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
This area had burned before
53% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 12 ha in 2017, 19 ha in 2019, 990 ha in 2020, 10 ha in 2021, 157 ha in 2022.
- 981 ha Ad Dinder fire, December 2020 4,305 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 157 ha Ad Dinder fire, January 2022 2,819 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 19 ha Ad Dinder fire, November 2019 2,232 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 9 ha Ad Dinder fire, November 2020 9,507 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Ad Dinder where it started2,175 ha reached on 1 Dec0.2 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
Detections table · 83Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 9,507 haAd Dinder13 November 2020 · 9 days · 11 km away
- 14,704 haAd Dinder14 November 2021 · 14 days · 18 km away
- 21,563 haAd Dinder1 November 2025 · 46 days · 21 km away
- 11,032 haQuara6 November 2020 · 12 days · 35 km away
- 7,802 haQuara22 November 2021 · 10 days · 37 km away
- 8,904 haAd Dinder10 January 2022 · 5 days · 38 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Ad Dinder fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 2 December 2023 and 4 December 2023: 3 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 2,163 hectares (21.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Ad Dinder (2,175 ha, 0.2 %).
- 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.
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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.