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Wildfires in Al Kurmuk

Al Kurmuk, Sudan, has had 53 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 148,489 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 15% of its area. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 44).

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. Sat 14 Very high 37° · 23 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very high 38° · 22 % · 22 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very high 39° · 14 % · 25 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Extreme 40° · 16 % · 28 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Extreme 39° · 15 % · 26 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Extreme 39° · 15 % · 32 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Extreme 40° · 15 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very high 39° · 17 % · 24 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 Al Kurmuk: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

148,489
hectares burned
15 %
of its area
53
fires
9,797
km²

How many times has Al Kurmuk burned?

Al Kurmuk has burned 53 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Geisan fire, 12 November 2026, with 791 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 12× 16
  2. 9× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 7× 19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 6× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 6× 26
53
fires
9
years with fire
148,489
cumulative ha
12 Nov 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 2,000 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 Sudan

Fires that entered Al Kurmuk

  1. 791 ha Geisan fire, 12 November 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,119 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,135 ha Al Kurmuk fire, November 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,120 ha in total · 9 days
  3. 2,695 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 22 October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,675 ha in total · 18 days
  4. 2,479 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 21 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,465 ha in total · 11 days
  5. 4,594 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 19 October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,075 ha in total · 18 days
  6. 6,256 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 2 October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,219 ha in total · 10 days
  7. 3,985 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 9 December 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,969 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,821 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 8 December 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,535 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 2,051 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 8 December 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,492 ha in total · 3 days
  10. 2,427 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 7 December 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,412 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 2,377 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 18 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,362 ha in total · 23 days
  12. 2,498 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 12 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,484 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 2,219 ha Al Kurmuk fire, January 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,210 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 2,658 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 15 November 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,640 ha in total · 11 days
  15. 2,318 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 13 November 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,301 ha in total · 13 days
  16. 2,135 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 10 November 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,122 ha in total · 14 days
  17. 2,750 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 1 November 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,734 ha in total · 2 days
  18. 2,481 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 10 January 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,660 ha in total · 5 days
  19. 3,050 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 8 January 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 3,039 ha in total · 6 days
  20. 2,295 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 17 December 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,440 ha in total · 12 days
  21. 2,047 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 17 December 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,039 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 2,611 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 2 December 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,601 ha in total · 3 days
  23. 5,249 ha Al Kurmuk fire, November 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 5,979 ha in total · 18 days
  24. 2,194 ha Al Kurmuk fire, January 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,177 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 12 ha Baw fire, December 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,143 ha in total · 3 days
  26. 5,254 ha Al Kurmuk fire, December 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,041 ha in total · 16 days
  27. 2,177 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 27 November 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,164 ha in total · 13 days
  28. 5,267 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 18 November 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 7,222 ha in total · 7 days
  29. 2,368 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 11 November 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,352 ha in total · 11 days
  30. 2,300 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 10 November 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,284 ha in total · 2 days
  31. 2,040 ha Al Kurmuk fire, January 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,937 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 561 ha Al Kurmuk fire, November 2018 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,109 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 2,035 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 19 December 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,027 ha in total · 7 days
  34. 4,062 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 10 December 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 7,153 ha in total · 5 days
  35. 2,115 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 19 November 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,107 ha in total · 11 days
  36. 4,145 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 13 November 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 4,114 ha in total · 15 days
  37. 2,647 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 10 November 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,629 ha in total · 6 days
  38. 190 ha Baw fire, 7 November 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 4,114 ha in total · 9 days
  39. 2,101 ha Baw fire, 4 November 2017 0.2% of the municipality · 2,516 ha in total · 16 days
  40. 3,478 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 4 November 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,458 ha in total · 9 days
  41. 3,452 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 4 November 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,684 ha in total · 6 days
  42. 2,270 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 29 December 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,252 ha in total · 4 days
  43. 2,097 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 17 December 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,079 ha in total · 2 days
  44. 1,449 ha Baw fire, 10 December 2016 0.2% of the municipality · 2,760 ha in total · 4 days
  45. 4,666 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 6 December 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 8,688 ha in total · 10 days
  46. 2,086 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 3 December 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,078 ha in total · 6 days
  47. 1,968 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 27 November 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,481 ha in total · 4 days
  48. 1,396 ha Geisan fire, 22 November 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 2,888 ha in total · 5 days
  49. 2,205 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 20 November 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,189 ha in total · 10 days
  50. 6,183 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 17 November 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 8,293 ha in total · 16 days
  51. 5,450 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 16 November 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,405 ha in total · 12 days
  52. 5,922 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 16 November 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,822 ha in total · 15 days
  53. 2,476 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 15 November 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,994 ha in total · 17 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).

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