Burned area
satellite only16,627ha
Union of 2 GWIS (Copernicus) perimeters: overlapping areas count once.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 4 Nov 2026 – 13 Nov 2026
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SD · Sudan · –
Al Dibab fire, 4 November 2026 Keilak, Al Dibab
Dying down · last detection 13 Nov 2026, 12:04 UTC
The fire started on 4 November 2026 in Al Dibab, Sudan, and satellites saw it burning for 10 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 16,627 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
Number 6 in Sudan in 2026, of 358.
GWIS near-real-time perimeter, from the layer that changed in August 2025: this fire is not compared with fires from earlier years, because since then the GWIS layer gives more and larger perimeters.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only10days
From 4 Nov 2026 to today: still being detected.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 13 Nov 2026, 12:04 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only4 Nov 2026
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 4 Nov 2026
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only345
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 86 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (NOAA-20)
- Date
- 4 Nov 2026 – 13 Nov 2026
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only1,049MW
Total radiative power on 11 November 2026; hotspots that day: 95.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 11 Nov 2026
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
This page’s change log has been kept since 14 November 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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logPage published (16,627 ha).
What was saved on 14 November 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 16,627 ha
- Dates
- 4 Nov 2026 – ongoing
- Name
- Al Dibab
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/al-dibab-2026-11-3?v=2026-11-14A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire al-dibab-2026-11-3.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-04 | 2 | 33 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2026-11-05 | 3 | 10 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2026-11-07 | 2 | 55 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2026-11-09 | 21 | 222 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2026-11-10 | 45 | 326 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2026-11-11 | 95 | 1,049 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2026-11-12 | 76 | 881 | 1 | ||||||||
| 2026-11-13 | 101 | 924 | 1 |
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Sources for this page: GWIS (Copernicus), NASA FIRMS (VIIRS). Open-Meteo.com · How we build fire pages: methodology
Is it still active?
No detections since 13 Nov 2026, 12:04 UTC. That usually means no flame is visible from space any more, although hotspots may remain. Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
- Burnt area
- 16,627ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 10days
- 4 Nov 2026 – 13 Nov 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- localities
- Started on
- 4 Nov
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 345
- in a single hotspot: 86 MW
- Average daily power
- 438MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
4 Nov13 Nov
13 Nov 2026
How it evolved, day by day
4 Nov
7 Nov
11 Nov
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
This area had burned before
71% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2,083 ha in 2016, 2,702 ha in 2017, 1,789 ha in 2019, 6,557 ha in 2021, 2,570 ha in 2023, 464 ha in 2024, 4,951 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 11,776 ha that had burned before.
- 2,076 ha Keilak fire, November 2017 2,820 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,719 ha Keilak fire, December 2025 3,951 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,679 ha Keilak fire, November 2023 2,561 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,545 ha Keilak fire, November 2021 2,176 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,500 ha Keilak fire, December 2025 2,174 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,256 ha Keilak fire, November 2025 5,340 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,038 ha Keilak fire, February 2021 2,321 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 873 ha Keilak fire, November 2021 2,422 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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11,428 ha reached on 10 Nov1.3 %
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Al Dibab where it started4,935 ha reached on 4 Nov0.5 %
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.
Before and after, from space
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Before · 28 Oct 2026
After · 13 Nov 2026
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 13 November 2026 the air beside the fire reached 106 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 56: 3.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak106 µg/m³
Days over the guideline12 days
PM10150 µg/m³
Optical depth0.58
WHO 15
2 Nov5 Nov8 Nov11 Nov
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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 · 345Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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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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Other fires nearby
- 15,867 haKeilak2 November 2016 · 11 days · 26 km away
- 7,851 haKeilak20 October 2026 · 17 days · 26 km away
- 7,276 haKeilak15 November 2021 · 13 days · 27 km away
- 5,975 haPariang November 2026 · 10 days · 31 km away
- 6,009 haKeilakJanuary 2017 · 13 days · 35 km away
- 7,812 haAl Dibab14 November 2025 · 36 days · 40 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Al Dibab fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 4 November 2026 to 13 November 2026 (10 days). The perimeter dates it from 9 November 2026 to 13 November 2026.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 16,627 hectares (166.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Keilak (11,428 ha, 1.3 %); Al Dibab (4,935 ha, 0.5 %).
- Is the Al Dibab fire still active?
- No fire detections since 13 Nov 2026, 12:04 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
- 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 · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 14 November 2026.
- Page published (16,627 ha).
RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version
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; 2 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 9 November 2026 to 13 November 2026. 345 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
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.