Wildfires in Pibor

Name: Pibor
Address: SS

Pibor, South Sudan, has had 124 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,006,946 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 30% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 29).

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

Thu 22 High 40° · 23 % · 34 km/h
Fri 23 High 40° · 19 % · 38 km/h
Sat 24 High 40° · 25 % · 44 km/h
Sun 25 High 39° · 26 % · 43 km/h
Mon 26 High 39° · 28 % · 45 km/h
Tue 27 Very low 30° · 65 % · 52 km/h
Wed 28 Very low 32° · 57 % · 35 km/h
Thu 29 Very low 31° · 62 % · 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.

Since 2016

1,006,946
hectares burned: 30 %
of its area: 124
fires: 33,260
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Pibor

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).

Fire danger, today and the coming days

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

Hectares per year

Fires that entered Pibor

Where this data comes from