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Wildfires in Mayom

Mayom, South Sudan, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 29,882 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.0% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 70).

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

These figures leave out 2 provisional pages, seen only as heat detections and still without a perimeter. They appear in the lists, marked.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 9 Extreme 38° · 12 % · 29 km/h
  2. Tue 10 Extreme 38° · 10 % · 36 km/h
  3. Wed 11 Extreme 38° · 8 % · 31 km/h
  4. Thu 12 Extreme 39° · 9 % · 30 km/h
  5. Fri 13 Very extreme 40° · 13 % · 36 km/h
  6. Sat 14 Extreme 38° · 25 % · 34 km/h
  7. Sun 15 Extreme 38° · 23 % · 35 km/h
  8. Mon 16 Very high 39° · 26 % · 23 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 Mayom: hourly forecast Today, 27 µg/m³ of PM2.5 (×1.8 the WHO guideline)

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

29,882
hectares burned
7.0 %
of its area
7
fires
4,288
km²

How many times has Mayom burned?

Mayom has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2018, 2019, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Mayom fire, October 2026, with 6,035 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 2× 26
7
fires
5
years with fire
29,882
cumulative ha
14 Oct 2026
most recent

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 Mayom

  1. 5,558 ha Abiemnhom fire, 1 November 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 2,870 ha Mayom fire, November 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 0 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 6,035 ha Mayom fire, October 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 6,167 ha in total · 28 days
  4. 56 ha Gogrial East fire, October 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 13,011 ha in total · 29 days
  5. 2,073 ha Mayom fire, 8 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 17,663 ha in total · 55 days
  6. 16,791 ha Mayom fire, 6 November 2025 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 28,949 ha in total · 57 days
  7. 659 ha Mayom fire, December 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 10,377 ha in total · 31 days
  8. 3,653 ha Mayom fire, December 2018 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 5,169 ha in total · 10 days
  9. 614 ha Koch fire, January 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 6,550 ha in total · 10 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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