Burned area
satellite only3,219ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 14 Oct 2026 – 29 Oct 2026
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SD · Sudan · –
Talawdi fire, 14 October 2026 Talawdi
Out · last detection 29 Oct 2026, 11:47 UTC
The fire started on 14 October 2026 in Talawdi, Sudan, and satellites saw it burning for 16 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,219 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
Number 133 in Sudan in 2026, of 313.
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 only16days
14 Oct 2026 to 29 Oct 2026: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 29 Oct 2026, 11:47 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 only14 Oct 2026
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 14 Oct 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 only61
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 36 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP)
- Date
- 14 Oct 2026 – 29 Oct 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 only113MW
Total radiative power on 20 October 2026; hotspots that day: 10.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 20 Oct 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.
Danger at the start
model40.8FWI · very high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 12.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 14 Oct 2026, local noon
- Model
- ECMWF IFS 0,25° · Open-Meteo.com · provisional
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model41.7°C · 12% RH
High of 41.7 °C and minimum humidity of 12% on 22 October 2026; gusts of 42 km/h on 16 October 2026.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 14 Oct 2026 – 29 Oct 2026
- Model
- ECMWF IFS 0,25° · Open-Meteo.com · provisional
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 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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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the forecast (provisional until ERA5 arrives)
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logLast day with fire: 24 October 2026 → 29 October 2026.
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
What was saved on 1 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
- 3,219 ha
- Dates
- 14 Oct 2026 – 29 Oct 2026
- Name
- Talawdi
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/talawdi-2026-10?v=2026-11-01A 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 talawdi-2026-10.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-14 | 3 | 35 | 38.8 | 25.8 | 27 | 14.3 | 31.7 | 0 | 40.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-10-15 | 0 | 0 | 39.7 | 24.6 | 22 | 13.8 | 28.1 | 0 | 49.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-10-16 | 9 | 83 | 39.5 | 27.7 | 15 | 22.7 | 41.8 | 0.1 | 43.9 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-10-17 | 10 | 109 | 38.3 | 26.2 | 20 | 14.8 | 29.5 | 0 | 45.8 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-10-18 | 0 | 0 | 38.2 | 26.7 | 26 | 12.9 | 24.1 | 0 | 43.6 | muy_alto | 1 |
| 2026-10-19 | 1 | 12 | 40.3 | 27.5 | 17 | 15.8 | 28.4 | 0 | 55 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-10-20 | 10 | 113 | 40.1 | 27.9 | 21 | 12 | 27.7 | 0 | 57.3 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-10-21 | 9 | 94 | 41.6 | 28.8 | 14 | 15.7 | 33.5 | 0 | 57.3 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-10-22 | 8 | 44 | 41.7 | 28.3 | 12 | 17.6 | 34.6 | 0 | 78.9 | muy_extremo | 1 |
| 2026-10-23 | 2 | 2 | 40.2 | 26.8 | 13 | 14.8 | 31.3 | 0 | 63.6 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-10-24 | 0 | 0 | 40.1 | 26.2 | 13 | 13.8 | 30.2 | 0 | 64.3 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-10-25 | 1 | 10 | 40.3 | 26.3 | 12 | 13.6 | 26.6 | 0 | 64.4 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-10-26 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 25.5 | 12 | 11.7 | 24.8 | 0 | 57.7 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-10-27 | 0 | 0 | 37.2 | 26.7 | 12 | 16.1 | 29.9 | 1 | 63.2 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-10-28 | 1 | 36 | 39.5 | 25.8 | 9 | 16.9 | 30.6 | 0 | 62.4 | extremo | 1 |
| 2026-10-29 | 7 | 39 | 41.5 | 28 | 11 | 20.6 | 41 | 0 | 89.4 | muy_extremo | 1 |
| 2026-10-30 | 0 | 0 | 38.8 | 27 | 20 | 15.2 | 26.6 | 0 | 52.9 | extremo | 0 |
| 2026-10-31 | 0 | 0 | 40.1 | 27.5 | 17 | 14.9 | 29.5 | 0 | 62 | extremo | 0 |
| 2026-11-01 | 0 | 0 | 39.3 | 27.4 | 19 | 14.4 | 29.9 | 0 | 54.2 | extremo | 0 |
| 2026-11-02 | 0 | 0 | 40.2 | 27.4 | 17 | 11.1 | 23.8 | 0 | 50.6 | extremo | 0 |
| 2026-11-03 | 0 | 0 | 41.4 | 29.6 | 12 | 17.3 | 31.7 | 0 | 70.1 | muy_extremo | 0 |
| 2026-11-04 | 0 | 0 | 41.2 | 27.8 | 14 | 12 | 23.8 | 0 | 59.5 | extremo | 0 |
| 2026-11-05 | 0 | 0 | 40.5 | 26.4 | 11 | 13 | 29.5 | 0 | 71.7 | muy_extremo | 0 |
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- Burnt area
- 3,219ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 16days
- 14 Oct 2026 – 29 Oct 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- localities
- Started on
- 14 Oct
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 61
- in a single hotspot: 36 MW
- Danger at start
- 41
- Very high · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 52MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
14 Oct29 Oct
29 Oct 2026
How it evolved, day by day
14 Oct
20 Oct
28 Oct
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
42°high
42km/h · peak gust
9%lowest humidity
It had gone 12 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
65% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,722 ha in 2016, 832 ha in 2017, 474 ha in 2019, 1,560 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,100 ha that had burned before.
- 1,720 ha Talawdi fire, October 2016 8,379 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 936 ha Talawdi fire, November 2025 3,128 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 813 ha Talawdi fire, November 2017 3,183 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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Talawdi where it started3,238 ha reached on 14 Oct0.9 %
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 2025Built-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) · forecast models, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Oct | 38.8 °C | 27 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 15 Oct | 39.7 °C | 22 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 50 |
| 16 Oct | 39.5 °C | 15 % | 42 km/h | 0.1 mm | Very high 44 |
| 17 Oct | 38.3 °C | 20 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 46 |
| 18 Oct | 38.2 °C | 26 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
| 19 Oct | 40.3 °C | 17 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 55 |
| 20 Oct | 40.1 °C | 21 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 21 Oct | 41.6 °C | 14 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 57 |
| 22 Oct | 41.7 °C | 12 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 79 |
| 23 Oct | 40.2 °C | 13 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 64 |
| 24 Oct | 40.1 °C | 13 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 64 |
| 25 Oct | 40.3 °C | 12 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 64 |
| 26 Oct | 39.0 °C | 12 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 58 |
| 27 Oct | 37.2 °C | 12 % | 30 km/h | 1.0 mm | Extreme 63 |
| 28 Oct | 39.5 °C | 9 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 62 |
| 29 Oct | 41.5 °C | 11 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 89 |
| 30 Oct after | 38.8 °C | 20 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 53 |
| 31 Oct after | 40.1 °C | 17 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 62 |
| 1 Nov after | 39.3 °C | 19 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 54 |
| 2 Nov after | 40.2 °C | 17 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 51 |
| 3 Nov after | 41.4 °C | 12 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 70 |
| 4 Nov after | 41.2 °C | 14 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Extreme 60 |
| 5 Nov after | 40.5 °C | 11 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very extreme 72 |
Before and after, from space
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Before · 7 Oct 2026
After · 4 Nov 2026
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 20 October 2026 the air beside the fire reached 42 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 25: 1.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak42 µg/m³
Days over the guideline5 days
PM10134 µg/m³
Optical depth0.48
WHO 15
12 Oct14 Oct16 Oct18 Oct20 Oct
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 · 61Every 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
- 8,379 haTalawdi29 October 2016 · 10 days · 9 km away
- 6,897 haTalawdiOctober 2017 · 15 days · 15 km away
- 6,387 haTalawdi15 November 2023 · 11 days · 16 km away
- 6,425 haAl Leri18 November 2019 · 17 days · 27 km away
- 10,573 haAl Leri25 November 2025 · 12 days · 33 km away
- 5,938 haAl Leri25 January 2016 · 6 days · 35 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Talawdi fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 14 October 2026 to 29 October 2026 (16 days). The perimeter dates it from 14 October 2026 to 22 October 2026.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,219 hectares (32.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Talawdi (3,238 ha, 0.9 %).
- Is the Talawdi fire still active?
- No fire detections since 29 Oct 2026, 11:47 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 41.7 °C, humidity dropped to 9 % and gusts hit 42 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 89, class Very 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 · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 24 October 2026 → 29 October 2026.
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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 October 2026 to 22 October 2026. 61 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: ECMWF IFS model, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives.
- 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.