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Wildfires in Mayendit

Mayendit, South Sudan, has had 13 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 87,311 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 52).

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. Wed 4 Extreme 39° · 25 % · 30 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Extreme 40° · 21 % · 27 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Extreme 41° · 17 % · 29 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Extreme 39° · 20 % · 31 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very high 38° · 26 % · 31 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very high 37° · 32 % · 47 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very high 39° · 11 % · 30 km/h
  8. Wed 11 Very high 39° · 11 % · 29 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Mayendit: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

87,311
hectares burned
28 %
of its area
13
fires
3,081
km²

How many times has Mayendit burned?

Mayendit has burned 13 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Rumbek North fire, 7 January 2026, with 2,757 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 87,311 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 72,299 hectares, 23 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
13
fires
8
years with fire
87,311
cumulative ha
72,299
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 Mayendit

  1. 2,757 ha Rumbek North fire, 7 January 2026 0.9% of the municipality · 7,676 ha in total · 22 days
  2. 20,321 ha Tonj East fire, 17 December 2025 6.6% of the municipality · 45,265 ha in total · 49 days
  3. 9,276 ha Mayendit fire, January 2024 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 12,964 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 4,993 ha Mayendit fire, January 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 5,046 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 3,870 ha Leer fire, April 2019 1.3% of the municipality · 5,879 ha in total · 19 days
  6. 6,218 ha Mayendit fire, March 2019 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 12,130 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 5,196 ha Mayendit fire, March 2018 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 6,063 ha in total · 13 days
  8. 2,563 ha Tonj East fire, December 2017 0.8% of the municipality · 5,061 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 2,761 ha Leer fire, April 2017 0.9% of the municipality · 6,676 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 6,715 ha Mayendit fire, March 2017 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 7,225 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 17,870 ha Mayendit fire, February 2017 where it started 5.8% of the municipality · 18,399 ha in total · 21 days
  12. 4,431 ha Panyijiar fire, 5 January 2016 1.4% of the municipality · 5,782 ha in total · 26 days
  13. 339 ha Tonj North fire, 5 January 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 7,846 ha in total · 7 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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