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Ad Dinder fire, 1 November 2025 Ad Dinder

Out · last detection 17 Dec 2025, 11:43 UTC

The fire started on 1 November 2025 in Ad Dinder, Sudan, and satellites saw it burning for 46 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.

It is the largest fire in Sennar since 2016 (of 130 with a page). Number 3 in Sudan in 2025, of 390.

Burnt area
21,563ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
46days
1 Nov 2025 – 16 Dec 2025
Municipalities hit
1
localities
Started on
1 Nov
2025
Heat detections
571
in a single hotspot: 178 MW
Danger at start
44
Very high · FWI index
Energy released
8.0GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

17 Dec 2025
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 1 Nov16 Dec

How it evolved, day by day

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Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

42°high
44km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity

It had gone 10 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.

What happened to each town

  1. Ad Dinder where it started
    21,665 ha reached on 1 Nov
    1.5 %

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.

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)
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 43
3 Nov 37.7 °C 26 % 31 km/h 0.7 mm Very high 41
4 Nov 37.1 °C 25 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
5 Nov 38.6 °C 15 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
6 Nov 40.1 °C 12 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
7 Nov 39.5 °C 12 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
8 Nov 39.5 °C 12 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
9 Nov 39.2 °C 13 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
10 Nov 39.7 °C 12 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
11 Nov 38.8 °C 14 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
12 Nov 38.8 °C 15 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
13 Nov 40.3 °C 15 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 48
14 Nov 38.7 °C 16 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
15 Nov 39.0 °C 17 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
16 Nov 36.4 °C 22 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
17 Nov 38.9 °C 20 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
18 Nov 38.7 °C 15 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
19 Nov 39.3 °C 14 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
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 53
23 Nov 39.6 °C 17 % 24 km/h 0.1 mm Very high 48
24 Nov 40.2 °C 13 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
25 Nov 39.6 °C 13 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 62
26 Nov 39.1 °C 10 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
27 Nov 39.1 °C 10 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
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 52
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 57
14 Dec 36.6 °C 15 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
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 after 35.2 °C 13 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
18 Dec after 35.8 °C 13 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
19 Dec after 35.6 °C 16 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
20 Dec after 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 52
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

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 25 Oct 2025
After · 23 Dec 2025

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 · Copernicus

On 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).

PM2.5 peak40 µg/m³
Days over the guideline17 days
PM10108 µg/m³
Optical depth0.50
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Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Ad Dinder fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 1 November 2025 and 16 December 2025: 46 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 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

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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.