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Wildfires in Baw

Baw, Sudan, has had 33 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 113,593 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% 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 Very high 41° · 14 % · 33 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 40° · 13 % · 38 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 41° · 14 % · 32 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Extreme 42° · 12 % · 38 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Extreme 42° · 9 % · 41 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 39° · 15 % · 36 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Extreme 40° · 7 % · 31 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Extreme 39° · 11 % · 31 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

113,593
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
33
fires
7,292
km²

How many times has Baw burned?

Baw has burned 33 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Baw fire, 14 April 2026, with 2,566 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 113,593 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 104,389 hectares, 14 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 8× 16
  2. 8× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 6× 25
  11. 5× 26
33
fires
8
years with fire
113,593
cumulative ha
104,389
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 Baw

  1. 2,566 ha Baw fire, 14 April 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,553 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,117 ha Baw fire, 12 April 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,107 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 4,698 ha Baw fire, 9 April 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,671 ha in total · 5 days
  4. 2,236 ha Baw fire, 25 February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,223 ha in total · 5 days
  5. 5,186 ha Baw fire, 22 February 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,156 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 2,802 ha Baw fire, 26 December 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,787 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 3,318 ha Baw fire, 20 December 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,302 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 3,580 ha Baw fire, 13 December 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,561 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 1,943 ha Baw fire, 7 December 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,264 ha in total · 13 days
  10. 3,883 ha Baw fire, November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,863 ha in total · 15 days
  11. 3,147 ha Baw fire, March 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,200 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 2,240 ha Baw fire, November 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,228 ha in total · 4 days
  13. 772 ha Al Kurmuk fire, November 2020 0.1% of the municipality · 5,979 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 2,087 ha Baw fire, November 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,077 ha in total · 3 days
  15. 2,142 ha Baw fire, December 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,143 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 2,004 ha Al Kurmuk fire, 18 November 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 7,222 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 1,560 ha Al Kurmuk fire, November 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 2,109 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 5,387 ha Baw fire, December 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,351 ha in total · 7 days
  19. 2,046 ha Baw fire, 30 November 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,037 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 432 ha Baw fire, 7 November 2017 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,516 ha in total · 6 days
  21. 3,945 ha Baw fire, 7 November 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,114 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 4,714 ha Baw fire, 6 November 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,681 ha in total · 7 days
  23. 7,973 ha Baw fire, 4 November 2017 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 7,935 ha in total · 7 days
  24. 2,094 ha Baw fire, 21 January 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,080 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 2,335 ha Baw fire, 6 January 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,320 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 2,716 ha Baw fire, 23 December 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,703 ha in total · 3 days
  27. 2,624 ha Baw fire, 16 December 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,610 ha in total · 4 days
  28. 8,897 ha Baw fire, 14 December 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 8,837 ha in total · 10 days
  29. 1,330 ha Baw fire, 10 December 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,760 ha in total · 4 days
  30. 12,893 ha Baw fire, 21 November 2016 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 12,823 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 4,441 ha Baw fire, 13 November 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,418 ha in total · 5 days
  32. 2,913 ha Baw fire, 28 January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,898 ha in total · 5 days
  33. 2,573 ha Baw fire, 21 January 2016 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,559 ha in total · 5 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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