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Wildfires in Fashoda

Fashoda, South Sudan, has had 27 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 173,467 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 48% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 48).

Only fires of 5,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 Very high 42° · 13 % · 31 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very high 41° · 13 % · 35 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Extreme 42° · 10 % · 34 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very high 41° · 13 % · 23 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Extreme 42° · 10 % · 35 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Extreme 41° · 8 % · 38 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very high 38° · 22 % · 34 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very high 39° · 16 % · 30 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

173,467
hectares burned
48 %
of its area
27
fires
3,617
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Fashoda

  1. 940 ha Panyikang fire, 14 January 2026 0.3% of the municipality · 6,295 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 10,908 ha Fashoda fire, December 2025 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 10,840 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 2,232 ha Malakal fire, 14 December 2025 0.6% of the municipality · 5,892 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 3,810 ha Malakal fire, 12 December 2025 1.0% of the municipality · 8,619 ha in total · 12 days
  5. 8,349 ha Fashoda fire, 16 December 2023 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 8,296 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 5,375 ha Fashoda fire, 5 December 2023 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 5,344 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 622 ha Baliet fire, 15 December 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 8,539 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 6,576 ha Fashoda fire, December 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 6,538 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 12,102 ha Fashoda fire, 20 November 2021 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 12,025 ha in total · 9 days
  10. 12,871 ha Fashoda fire, 17 November 2021 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 36,698 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 3,015 ha Manyo fire, 12 November 2021 0.8% of the municipality · 7,087 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 5,887 ha Fashoda fire, February 2021 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 5,851 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 5,503 ha Fashoda fire, 15 December 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 5,470 ha in total · 4 days
  14. 1,043 ha Manyo fire, December 2020 0.3% of the municipality · 6,935 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 8,262 ha Fashoda fire, 2 December 2020 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 8,209 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 1,491 ha Panyikang fire, 28 November 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 11,068 ha in total · 12 days
  17. 13,631 ha Fashoda fire, December 2019 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 13,544 ha in total · 15 days
  18. 6,215 ha Fashoda fire, 30 November 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 6,175 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 9,435 ha Malakal fire, November 2019 2.6% of the municipality · 22,311 ha in total · 18 days
  20. 3,606 ha Fashoda fire, 28 November 2019 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 10,444 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 7,619 ha Fashoda fire, December 2018 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 7,572 ha in total · 14 days
  22. 5,334 ha Fashoda fire, December 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 5,303 ha in total · 14 days
  23. 11,527 ha Fashoda fire, 21 November 2017 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 11,452 ha in total · 8 days
  24. 5,457 ha Fashoda fire, 21 November 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 5,422 ha in total · 6 days
  25. 6,195 ha Fashoda fire, November 2016 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 6,154 ha in total · 5 days
  26. 7,476 ha Fashoda fire, 25 January 2016 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 7,431 ha in total · 7 days
  27. 7,985 ha Fashoda fire, 6 January 2016 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 7,940 ha in total · 14 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/South Sudan Information Management Working Group (IMWG), National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), and OCHA, OCHA South Sudan (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).