Ad Dinder fire, October 2025 Ad Dinder
The fire started on 30 October 2025 in Ad Dinder, Sudan, and satellites saw it burning for 52 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 21,563 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
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:
- 35,770 haQuara19 December 2025 · 31 days
- 11,493 haAd Dinder13 November 2025 · 24 days
- 7,525 haAd Dinder7 November 2025 · 27 days
- 5,413 haAd Dinder18 November 2025 · 26 days
- 5,384 haAd Dinder13 November 2025 · 17 days
- 5,247 haAd Dinder3 November 2025 · 17 days
- 4,969 haAd Dinder3 November 2025 · 9 days
- 4,599 haAd Dinder5 November 2025 · 19 days
It is the largest fire in Sennar since 2016 (of 131 with a page). Number 3 in Sudan in 2025, of 395.
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- Burnt area
- 21,563ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 52days
- 30 Oct 2025 – 20 Dec 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- localities
- Started on
- 30 Oct
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 571
- in a single hotspot: 178 MW
- Danger at start
- 47
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 190MW
- detected power per day, on average
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.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
94% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 6,597 ha in 2016, 1,570 ha in 2017, 100 ha in 2018, 5,342 ha in 2019, 7,409 ha in 2020, 11,673 ha in 2021, 4,777 ha in 2022, 1,180 ha in 2023, 6,061 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 20,343 ha that had burned before.
- 9,481 ha Ad Dinder fire, November 2021 14,704 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 4,659 ha Ad Dinder fire, November 2024 6,170 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 3,530 ha Ad Dinder fire, November 2020 5,282 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,514 ha Ad Dinder fire, October 2016 3,130 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 2,030 ha Ad Dinder fire, October 2020 2,400 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,605 ha Ad Dinder fire, November 2022 2,552 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,597 ha Ad Dinder fire, November 2019 2,448 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,336 ha Ad Dinder fire, December 2021 2,500 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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Ad Dinder where it started21,665 ha reached on 1 Nov1.5 %
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.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Oct | 41.3 °C | 10 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 31 Oct | 38.1 °C | 19 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 1 Nov | 39.3 °C | 19 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 2 Nov | 39.5 °C | 17 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 3 Nov | 37.7 °C | 26 % | 31 km/h | 0.7 mm | Very high 42 |
| 4 Nov | 37.1 °C | 25 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 5 Nov | 38.6 °C | 15 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 6 Nov | 40.1 °C | 12 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 7 Nov | 39.5 °C | 12 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 8 Nov | 39.5 °C | 12 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 9 Nov | 39.2 °C | 13 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 10 Nov | 39.7 °C | 12 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 11 Nov | 38.8 °C | 14 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 12 Nov | 38.8 °C | 15 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 13 Nov | 40.3 °C | 15 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 14 Nov | 38.7 °C | 16 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 15 Nov | 39.0 °C | 17 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 16 Nov | 36.4 °C | 22 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 17 Nov | 38.9 °C | 20 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 18 Nov | 38.7 °C | 15 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 50 |
| 19 Nov | 39.3 °C | 14 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 20 Nov | 40.3 °C | 13 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 21 Nov | 41.2 °C | 11 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 22 Nov | 39.3 °C | 16 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 23 Nov | 39.6 °C | 17 % | 24 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very high 49 |
| 24 Nov | 40.2 °C | 13 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 25 Nov | 39.6 °C | 13 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 63 |
| 26 Nov | 39.1 °C | 10 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 27 Nov | 39.1 °C | 10 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 28 Nov | 39.2 °C | 12 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 29 Nov | 40.9 °C | 11 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 30 Nov | 39.5 °C | 13 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 1 Dec | 39.3 °C | 12 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 2 Dec | 39.7 °C | 10 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 3 Dec | 39.9 °C | 12 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 4 Dec | 39.9 °C | 12 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 5 Dec | 39.9 °C | 12 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 6 Dec | 40.6 °C | 11 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 7 Dec | 41.5 °C | 12 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 8 Dec | 41.7 °C | 11 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 62 |
| 9 Dec | 39.6 °C | 13 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 64 |
| 10 Dec | 37.8 °C | 15 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 61 |
| 11 Dec | 37.9 °C | 16 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 59 |
| 12 Dec | 38.7 °C | 16 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 59 |
| 13 Dec | 38.5 °C | 13 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 14 Dec | 36.6 °C | 15 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 62 |
| 15 Dec | 35.9 °C | 13 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 16 Dec | 33.9 °C | 13 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 17 Dec | 35.2 °C | 13 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 18 Dec | 35.8 °C | 13 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 19 Dec | 35.6 °C | 16 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 20 Dec | 34.9 °C | 13 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 21 Dec after | 35.5 °C | 13 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 22 Dec after | 37.2 °C | 11 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 23 Dec after | 39.0 °C | 12 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 24 Dec after | 39.4 °C | 11 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 25 Dec after | 38.4 °C | 9 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 26 Dec after | 37.6 °C | 13 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 27 Dec after | 38.2 °C | 13 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 28 Dec after | 38.1 °C | 13 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 59 |
| 29 Dec after | 35.9 °C | 12 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 30 Dec after | 35.0 °C | 12 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 61 |
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.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 9 November 2025 the air beside the fire reached 40 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 23: 1.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Detections table · 571Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Ad Dinder fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 30 October 2025 to 20 December 2025 (52 days). The perimeter dates it from 1 November 2025 to 16 December 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 21,563 hectares (215.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Ad Dinder (21,665 ha, 1.5 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 41.7 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 44 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 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 6 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 1 November 2025 to 16 December 2025. 571 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.
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.