How long did the Ad Dinder fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 13 November 2025 to 29 November 2025 (17 days). The perimeter dates it from 13 November 2025 to 23 November 2025.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 5,384 hectares (53.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Ad Dinder (5,406 ha, 0.4 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 41.0 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 61, 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.

SD · Sudan · 2025-11-13 → 2025-11-29

Ad Dinder fire, 13 November 2025 Ad Dinder

Out · last detection 29 Nov 2025, 10:40 UTC

The fire started on 13 November 2025 in Ad Dinder, Sudan, and satellites saw it burning for 17 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,384 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 18th largest in Sennar since 2016 (of 137 with a page). Number 64 in Sudan in 2025, of 390.

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Burnt area: 5,384ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 17days; 13 Nov 2025 – 29 Nov 2025
Municipalities hit: 1; localities
Started on: 13 Nov; 2025
Heat detections: 124; in a single hotspot: 216 MW
Danger at start: 46; Very high · FWI index
Average daily power: 109MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Nov29 Nov

Play back 29 Nov 2025

How it evolved, day by day

13 Nov 17 Nov 18 Nov 19 Nov 21 Nov 23 Nov 26 Nov 28 Nov

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

The weather it burned in

41°high

45km/h · peak gust

10%lowest humidity

It had gone 9 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

86% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3,756 ha in 2019, 1,919 ha in 2022, 4 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 4,631 ha that had burned before.

2,873 ha Ad Dinder fire, December 2019 8,808 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 3.4% of the area of London (54 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

Ad Dinder where it started

5,406 ha reached on 13 Nov

0.4 %

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 2025

Built-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	Danger (FWI)
13 Nov	40.0 °C	15 %	30 km/h	Very high 46
14 Nov	38.5 °C	15 %	34 km/h	Extreme 52
15 Nov	38.8 °C	16 %	35 km/h	Extreme 52
16 Nov	36.2 °C	21 %	27 km/h	Very high 46
17 Nov	38.8 °C	20 %	26 km/h	Very high 44
18 Nov	38.4 °C	15 %	37 km/h	Very high 49
19 Nov	39.2 °C	14 %	45 km/h	Extreme 57
20 Nov	40.1 °C	14 %	34 km/h	Very high 50
21 Nov	41.0 °C	11 %	23 km/h	Very high 47
22 Nov	39.2 °C	16 %	32 km/h	Extreme 52
23 Nov	38.9 °C	17 %	26 km/h	Very high 47
24 Nov	39.9 °C	13 %	22 km/h	Very high 46
25 Nov	39.5 °C	13 %	42 km/h	Extreme 61
26 Nov	38.9 °C	10 %	34 km/h	Extreme 55
27 Nov	39.0 °C	10 %	30 km/h	Extreme 52
28 Nov	38.9 °C	12 %	34 km/h	Extreme 55
29 Nov	40.7 °C	11 %	32 km/h	Extreme 54
30 Nov after	39.4 °C	14 %	34 km/h	Extreme 56
1 Dec after	39.1 °C	12 %	27 km/h	Extreme 50
2 Dec after	39.5 °C	11 %	34 km/h	Extreme 56
3 Dec after	39.7 °C	12 %	30 km/h	Extreme 54
4 Dec after	39.6 °C	12 %	26 km/h	Extreme 51
5 Dec after	39.8 °C	12 %	31 km/h	Extreme 55
6 Dec after	40.4 °C	12 %	29 km/h	Extreme 53
7 Dec after	41.1 °C	12 %	33 km/h	Extreme 57
8 Dec after	41.3 °C	12 %	37 km/h	Extreme 61
9 Dec after	39.5 °C	13 %	39 km/h	Extreme 64

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 6 Nov 2025

After · 6 Dec 2025

Before After

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 24 November 2025 the air beside the fire reached 33 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 26: 1.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak33 µg/m³

Days over the guideline4 days

PM1099 µg/m³

Optical depth0.45

WHO 15

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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 · 124Every 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 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 13 November 2025 to 29 November 2025 (17 days). The perimeter dates it from 13 November 2025 to 23 November 2025.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 5,384 hectares (53.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Ad Dinder (5,406 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 41.0 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 61, 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

NASA FIRMS ↗
GWIS · Copernicus ↗

History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

27 October 2026 Last day with fire: 23 November 2025 → 29 November 2025.

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 13 November 2025 to 23 November 2025. 124 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.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.

Where it burned