Ad Dinder fire, 3 November 2025 Ad Dinder
The fire started on 3 November 2025 in Ad Dinder, Sudan, and satellites saw it burning for 17 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,247 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 19th largest in Sennar since 2016 (of 131 with a page). Number 68 in Sudan in 2025, of 390.
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- Burnt area
- 5,247ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 17days
- 3 Nov 2025 – 19 Nov 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- localities
- Started on
- 3 Nov
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 67
- in a single hotspot: 47 MW
- Danger at start
- 45
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 56MW
- 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 12 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
29% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 123 ha in 2019, 917 ha in 2020, 474 ha in 2023, 7 ha in 2024.
- 917 ha Ad Dinder fire, November 2020 2,081 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 474 ha Ad Dinder fire, November 2023 2,491 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 123 ha Ad Dinder fire, November 2019 3,001 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 7 ha Ad Dinder fire, March 2024 2,136 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 started5,273 ha reached on 3 Nov0.4 %
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 2025Inside 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Nov | 37.7 °C | 26 % | 33 km/h | 0.6 mm | Very high 45 |
| 4 Nov | 37.2 °C | 25 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 5 Nov | 38.6 °C | 16 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 6 Nov | 40.1 °C | 12 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 7 Nov | 39.5 °C | 11 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 8 Nov | 39.5 °C | 12 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 9 Nov | 39.2 °C | 13 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 10 Nov | 39.7 °C | 12 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 45 |
| 11 Nov | 38.8 °C | 14 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 12 Nov | 38.7 °C | 15 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 13 Nov | 40.1 °C | 15 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 14 Nov | 38.6 °C | 15 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 59 |
| 15 Nov | 38.7 °C | 16 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 16 Nov | 36.3 °C | 22 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 17 Nov | 38.8 °C | 20 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 43 |
| 18 Nov | 38.6 °C | 15 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 19 Nov | 39.3 °C | 14 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 20 Nov after | 40.2 °C | 13 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 52 |
| 21 Nov after | 41.1 °C | 11 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 22 Nov after | 39.4 °C | 15 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 23 Nov after | 39.5 °C | 17 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 47 |
| 24 Nov after | 40.2 °C | 12 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
| 25 Nov after | 39.5 °C | 12 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 62 |
| 26 Nov after | 38.8 °C | 11 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
| 27 Nov after | 39.0 °C | 11 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 28 Nov after | 39.0 °C | 13 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 56 |
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 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).
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 · 67Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 11,314 haAd Dinder11 November 2024 · 11 days · 13 km away
- 7,525 haAd Dinder7 November 2025 · 27 days · 13 km away
- 10,865 haAd Dinder6 November 2025 · 28 days · 18 km away
- 8,808 haAd Dinder17 December 2019 · 15 days · 33 km away
- 21,563 haAd DinderNovember 2025 · 46 days · 34 km away
- 8,904 haAd Dinder10 January 2022 · 6 days · 36 km away
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 3 November 2025 to 19 November 2025 (17 days). The perimeter dates it from 3 November 2025 to 18 November 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 5,247 hectares (52.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Ad Dinder (5,273 ha, 0.4 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 40.1 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 38 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 59, 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.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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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 3 November 2025 to 18 November 2025. 67 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.
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.