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Wildfires in Torit

Torit, South Sudan, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 47,026 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 8.0% of its area. Fire danger today: high (FWI 24).

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 Moderate 37° · 27 % · 31 km/h
  2. Mon 2 High 37° · 20 % · 32 km/h
  3. Tue 3 High 39° · 16 % · 43 km/h
  4. Wed 4 High 40° · 14 % · 38 km/h
  5. Thu 5 High 39° · 17 % · 33 km/h
  6. Fri 6 High 38° · 21 % · 36 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Moderate 38° · 24 % · 42 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 34° · 63 % · 47 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

47,026
hectares burned
8.0 %
of its area
9
fires
5,877
km²

How many times has Torit burned?

Torit has burned 9 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2019, 2021, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Magwi fire, January 2026, with 2,363 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 47,026 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 42,711 hectares, 7.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 3× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 1× 26
9
fires
5
years with fire
47,026
cumulative ha
42,711
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 Torit

  1. 2,363 ha Magwi fire, January 2026 0.4% of the municipality · 9,327 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 193 ha Magwi fire, November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 5,540 ha in total · 23 days
  3. 7,901 ha Torit fire, 7 December 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 7,848 ha in total · 12 days
  4. 7,643 ha Torit fire, 6 December 2021 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 7,591 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 18,186 ha Torit fire, January 2021 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 19,737 ha in total · 19 days
  6. 3,048 ha Ikotos fire, January 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 6,361 ha in total · 15 days
  7. 14 ha Magwi fire, 23 December 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 5,555 ha in total · 20 days
  8. 5,829 ha Torit fire, February 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,791 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 1,847 ha Magwi fire, January 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 6,239 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).

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