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Ad Dinder fire, 7 November 2025 Ad Dinder

Out · last detection 3 Dec 2025, 11:05 UTC

The fire started on 7 November 2025 in Ad Dinder, Sudan, and satellites saw it burning for 27 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,525 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 10th largest in Sennar since 2016 (of 137 with a page). Number 40 in Sudan in 2025, of 390.

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Suggestions: Ad Dinder · 2020Ad Dinder · 2019Ad Dinder · 2025Ad Dinder · 2024

Burnt area
7,525ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
27days
7 Nov 2025 – 3 Dec 2025
Municipalities hit
1
localities
Started on
7 Nov
2025
Heat detections
202
in a single hotspot: 220 MW
Danger at start
39
Very high · FWI index
Average daily power
113MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 7 Nov3 Dec
3 Dec 2025

How it evolved, day by day

7 Nov 2025 · 28 MW · 1 8 Nov 2025 · 23 MW · 2 10 Nov 2025 · 16 MW · 2 13 Nov 2025 · 11 MW · 3 14 Nov 2025 · 64 MW · 4 15 Nov 2025 · 49 MW · 5 16 Nov 2025 · 6 MW · 1 17 Nov 2025 · 7 MW · 2 18 Nov 2025 · 129 MW · 13 19 Nov 2025 · 240 MW · 23 20 Nov 2025 · 139 MW · 13 21 Nov 2025 · 353 MW · 18 22 Nov 2025 · 189 MW · 26 23 Nov 2025 · 41 MW · 5 24 Nov 2025 · 51 MW · 7 25 Nov 2025 · 48 MW · 5 26 Nov 2025 · 878 MW · 19 27 Nov 2025 · 260 MW · 15 28 Nov 2025 · 57 MW · 9 29 Nov 2025 · 41 MW · 14 30 Nov 2025 · 63 MW · 10 1 Dec 2025 · 2 MW · 1 2 Dec 2025 · 15 MW · 2 3 Dec 2025 · 14 MW · 2
7 Nov 14 Nov 18 Nov 22 Nov 26 Nov 30 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 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

20% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 650 ha in 2019, 867 ha in 2020, 3 ha in 2023.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 4.8% of the area of London (75 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

  1. Ad Dinder where it started
    7,559 ha reached on 7 Nov
    0.5 %

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.

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 Rain Danger (FWI)
7 Nov 39.1 °C 13 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
8 Nov 39.1 °C 13 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 41
9 Nov 38.9 °C 13 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
10 Nov 39.4 °C 12 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
11 Nov 38.7 °C 14 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 45
12 Nov 38.7 °C 15 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
13 Nov 40.1 °C 15 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
14 Nov 38.6 °C 15 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
15 Nov 38.8 °C 16 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
16 Nov 36.2 °C 21 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
17 Nov 38.9 °C 20 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 44
18 Nov 38.5 °C 15 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
19 Nov 39.3 °C 14 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 58
20 Nov 40.1 °C 14 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 50
21 Nov 41.0 °C 11 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
22 Nov 39.2 °C 16 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
23 Nov 39.0 °C 18 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
24 Nov 40.0 °C 13 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
25 Nov 39.6 °C 13 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
26 Nov 39.0 °C 10 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
27 Nov 39.0 °C 10 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 52
28 Nov 39.0 °C 12 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
29 Nov 40.7 °C 11 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 54
30 Nov 39.4 °C 14 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
1 Dec 39.2 °C 12 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 50
2 Dec 39.6 °C 11 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 56
3 Dec 39.7 °C 12 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
4 Dec after 39.7 °C 12 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 51
5 Dec after 39.8 °C 12 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
6 Dec after 40.5 °C 12 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 53
7 Dec after 41.1 °C 12 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57
8 Dec after 41.3 °C 12 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
9 Dec after 39.5 °C 13 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 63
10 Dec after 37.6 °C 15 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 61
11 Dec after 37.7 °C 16 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 60
12 Dec after 38.5 °C 17 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 59
13 Dec after 38.2 °C 14 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 57

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 31 Oct 2025
After · 10 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 16 November 2025 the air beside the fire reached 30 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 24: 1.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak30 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1092 µg/m³
Optical depth0.45
12131415161718192021222324252627282930
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 · 202Every 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

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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 7 November 2025 to 3 December 2025 (27 days). The perimeter dates it from 14 November 2025 to 27 November 2025.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 7,525 hectares (75.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Ad Dinder (7,559 ha, 0.5 %).
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

History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
  1. Last day with fire: 27 November 2025 → 3 December 2025.
  2. Start date: 14 November 2025 → 7 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 14 November 2025 to 27 November 2025. 202 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.