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Wildfires in Lainya

Lainya, South Sudan, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 102,478 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 29% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 9).

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. Sun 1 Very low 32° · 41 % · 23 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Low 34° · 33 % · 22 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Moderate 36° · 26 % · 30 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Moderate 36° · 25 % · 46 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Moderate 37° · 20 % · 39 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Moderate 35° · 29 % · 31 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Low 36° · 27 % · 37 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 34° · 56 % · 43 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

102,478
hectares burned
29 %
of its area
11
fires
3,521
km²

How many times has Lainya burned?

Lainya has burned 11 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Lainya fire, 1 January 2026, with 9,955 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 102,478 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 71,503 hectares, 20 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 3× 26
11
fires
8
years with fire
102,478
cumulative ha
71,503
distinct ha

Fires larger than 5,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in South Sudan →

Fires that entered Lainya

  1. 9,955 ha Lainya fire, 1 January 2026 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 14,958 ha in total · 16 days
  2. 2,398 ha Yei fire, 1 January 2026 0.7% of the municipality · 9,299 ha in total · 26 days
  3. 37,970 ha Lainya fire, 1 January 2026 where it started 11% of the municipality · 38,618 ha in total · 31 days
  4. 4,976 ha Lainya fire, December 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,453 ha in total · 18 days
  5. 778 ha Juba fire, 2 December 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 9,514 ha in total · 27 days
  6. 8,633 ha Lainya fire, January 2023 where it started 2.4% of the municipality · 8,836 ha in total · 20 days
  7. 4,689 ha Yei fire, February 2022 1.3% of the municipality · 5,438 ha in total · 10 days
  8. 6,780 ha Lainya fire, January 2021 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 6,732 ha in total · 14 days
  9. 1,107 ha Yei fire, 1 January 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 7,075 ha in total · 20 days
  10. 8,732 ha Lainya fire, January 2017 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 8,671 ha in total · 16 days
  11. 16,460 ha Lainya fire, January 2016 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 20,594 ha in total · 26 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).

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