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Wildfires in Abyei

Abyei, Sudan, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 4,437 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.0% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 51).

Only fires of 2,000 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. Fri 23 Extreme 40° · 13 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 40° · 12 % · 28 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Extreme 41° · 11 % · 32 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 41° · 11 % · 35 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 41° · 10 % · 36 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 38° · 23 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 40° · 10 % · 32 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 40° · 9 % · 39 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

4,437
hectares burned
1.0 %
of its area
2
fires
4,463
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Abyei

  1. 2,720 ha Abyei fire, January 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,023 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 1,717 ha Babanusa fire, February 2025 0.4% of the municipality · 3,172 ha in total · 4 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OCHA ROSEA, Information Management Working Group (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).