How long did the Ad Dinder fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 18 November 2025 to 13 December 2025 (26 days). The perimeter dates it from 22 November 2025 to 9 December 2025.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 5,413 hectares (54.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Ad Dinder (5,436 ha, 0.4 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 41.3 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 63, 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 · 2025-11-18 → 2025-12-13

Ad Dinder fire, 18 November 2025 Ad Dinder

Out · last detection 14 Dec 2025, 10:59 UTC

The fire started on 18 November 2025 in Ad Dinder, Sudan, and satellites saw it burning for 26 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,413 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 17th largest in Sennar since 2016 (of 136 with a page). Number 62 in Sudan in 2025, of 390.

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Burnt area: 5,413ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 26days; 18 Nov 2025 – 13 Dec 2025
Municipalities hit: 1; localities
Started on: 18 Nov; 2025
Heat detections: 156; in a single hotspot: 126 MW
Danger at start: 50; Extreme · FWI index
Average daily power: 119MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 18 Nov13 Dec

Play back 14 Dec 2025

How it evolved, day by day

18 Nov 23 Nov 26 Nov 29 Nov 2 Dec 5 Dec 12 Dec

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

42km/h · peak gust

10%lowest humidity

It had gone 18 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

78% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,660 ha in 2019, 216 ha in 2020, 1,598 ha in 2021, 27 ha in 2022, 1,500 ha in 2023, 2,143 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 4,215 ha that had burned before.

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

5,436 ha reached on 18 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)
22 Nov	39.2 °C	16 %	32 km/h	Very high 50
23 Nov	38.9 °C	17 %	26 km/h	Very high 45
24 Nov	39.9 °C	13 %	22 km/h	Very high 45
25 Nov	39.5 °C	13 %	42 km/h	Extreme 60
26 Nov	38.9 °C	10 %	34 km/h	Extreme 54
27 Nov	39.0 °C	10 %	30 km/h	Extreme 51
28 Nov	38.9 °C	12 %	34 km/h	Extreme 54
29 Nov	40.7 °C	11 %	32 km/h	Extreme 53
30 Nov	39.4 °C	14 %	34 km/h	Extreme 55
1 Dec	39.1 °C	12 %	27 km/h	Very high 49
2 Dec	39.5 °C	11 %	34 km/h	Extreme 55
3 Dec	39.7 °C	12 %	30 km/h	Extreme 53
4 Dec	39.6 °C	12 %	26 km/h	Extreme 50
5 Dec	39.8 °C	12 %	31 km/h	Extreme 54
6 Dec	40.4 °C	12 %	29 km/h	Extreme 52
7 Dec	41.1 °C	12 %	33 km/h	Extreme 56
8 Dec	41.3 °C	12 %	37 km/h	Extreme 60
9 Dec	39.5 °C	13 %	39 km/h	Extreme 63
10 Dec	37.6 °C	15 %	38 km/h	Extreme 60
11 Dec	37.6 °C	16 %	34 km/h	Extreme 59
12 Dec	38.4 °C	16 %	32 km/h	Extreme 59
13 Dec	38.2 °C	14 %	30 km/h	Extreme 56
14 Dec after	36.5 °C	16 %	34 km/h	Extreme 60
15 Dec after	35.6 °C	14 %	35 km/h	Extreme 58
16 Dec after	33.6 °C	13 %	32 km/h	Extreme 54
17 Dec after	35.0 °C	12 %	32 km/h	Extreme 57
18 Dec after	35.4 °C	13 %	32 km/h	Extreme 54
19 Dec after	35.6 °C	16 %	31 km/h	Extreme 53

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 11 Nov 2025

After · 20 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 10 December 2025 the air beside the fire reached 33 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 19: 1.2 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak33 µg/m³

Days over the guideline5 days

PM10108 µg/m³

Optical depth0.50

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 · 156Every 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 18 November 2025 to 13 December 2025 (26 days). The perimeter dates it from 22 November 2025 to 9 December 2025.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 5,413 hectares (54.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Ad Dinder (5,436 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 41.3 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 63, 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 · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

27 October 2026 Last day with fire: 9 December 2025 → 13 December 2025.
27 October 2026 Start date: 22 November 2025 → 18 November 2025.

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 2 polygons grouped in this page.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 22 November 2025 to 9 December 2025. 156 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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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