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Wildfires in Kutum

Kutum, Sudan, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 7,713 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.5% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 62).

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. Thu 29 Extreme 32° · 15 % · 36 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Extreme 32° · 14 % · 40 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Extreme 32° · 8 % · 34 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Extreme 34° · 12 % · 28 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Extreme 34° · 11 % · 33 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Extreme 34° · 12 % · 32 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Extreme 34° · 9 % · 41 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Extreme 34° · 11 % · 41 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

7,713
hectares burned
0.5 %
of its area
4
fires
14,084
km²

How many times has Kutum burned?

Kutum has burned 4 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Al Malha fire, 1 April 2026, with 675 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 2× 26
4
fires
2
years with fire
7,713
cumulative ha
1 Apr 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 Kutum

  1. 675 ha Al Malha fire, 1 April 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,270 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,662 ha Kutum fire, February 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,581 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 2,797 ha Kutum fire, October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,783 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 2,579 ha Kutum fire, April 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,559 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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