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Wildfires in As Sunut

As Sunut, Sudan, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 48,046 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.9% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 59).

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. Tue 27 Extreme 39° · 9 % · 30 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Extreme 38° · 7 % · 36 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Extreme 39° · 9 % · 47 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Extreme 39° · 15 % · 38 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Extreme 38° · 17 % · 37 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Extreme 39° · 16 % · 33 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Extreme 39° · 14 % · 36 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Extreme 40° · 15 % · 40 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

48,046
hectares burned
6.9 %
of its area
17
fires
6,934
km²

How many times has As Sunut burned?

As Sunut has burned 17 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: As Sunut fire, 9 March 2026, with 2,855 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 48,046 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 34,971 hectares, 5.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 2× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 2× 26
17
fires
9
years with fire
48,046
cumulative ha
34,971
distinct ha

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 As Sunut

  1. 2,855 ha As Sunut fire, 9 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,835 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 9,139 ha As Sunut fire, 3 March 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 9,112 ha in total · 10 days
  3. 2,472 ha As Sunut fire, 26 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,666 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 3,899 ha As Sunut fire, 19 November 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,879 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 2,236 ha As Sunut fire, 5 November 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,223 ha in total · 9 days
  6. 1,516 ha Abu Zabad fire, 4 November 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 7,888 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 4,088 ha As Sunut fire, 9 March 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,274 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 2,171 ha As Sunut fire, 1 March 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,158 ha in total · 3 days
  9. 728 ha As Sunut fire, November 2023 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,126 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 2,587 ha As Sunut fire, 15 November 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,572 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 2,653 ha As Sunut fire, 6 November 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,638 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 2,502 ha As Sunut fire, December 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,487 ha in total · 5 days
  13. 2,767 ha As Sunut fire, February 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,752 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 2,209 ha As Sunut fire, 21 November 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,196 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 2,140 ha As Sunut fire, 7 November 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,128 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 2,137 ha As Sunut fire, February 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,125 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 1,950 ha As Sunut fire, November 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,018 ha in total · 3 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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