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Wildfires in Kateila

Kateila, Sudan, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 11,312 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.4% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 64).

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 38° · 10 % · 44 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Extreme 36° · 11 % · 41 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very extreme 39° · 10 % · 48 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very extreme 39° · 9 % · 48 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Extreme 39° · 9 % · 42 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Extreme 38° · 14 % · 37 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Extreme 38° · 13 % · 38 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Extreme 40° · 9 % · 37 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

11,312
hectares burned
4.4 %
of its area
7
fires
2,597
km²

How many times has Kateila burned?

Kateila has burned 7 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2025. The most recent: Um Dafoug fire, 23 February 2025, with 593 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 11,312 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 8,738 hectares, 3.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
7
fires
4
years with fire
11,312
cumulative ha
8,738
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 Kateila

  1. 593 ha Um Dafoug fire, 23 February 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 2,321 ha in total · 9 days
  2. 1,009 ha Kateila fire, February 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,837 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,399 ha Kateila fire, January 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 2,635 ha in total · 6 days
  4. 2,165 ha Rehaid Albirdi fire, February 2020 0.8% of the municipality · 3,530 ha in total · 6 days
  5. 1,346 ha Kateila fire, March 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,816 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 1,617 ha Kateila fire, February 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,114 ha in total · 8 days
  7. 2,183 ha Kateila fire, January 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,171 ha in total · 11 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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