Wildfires in Melit

Name: Melit
Address: SD

Melit, Sudan, has had 44 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 163,830 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 55).

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

Fri 23 Extreme 33° · 13 % · 24 km/h
Sat 24 Extreme 34° · 12 % · 25 km/h
Sun 25 Extreme 35° · 13 % · 26 km/h
Mon 26 Extreme 36° · 12 % · 32 km/h
Tue 27 Extreme 35° · 12 % · 30 km/h
Wed 28 Extreme 34° · 12 % · 40 km/h
Thu 29 Extreme 33° · 16 % · 38 km/h
Fri 30 Extreme 32° · 17 % · 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.

Since 2016

163,830
hectares burned: 10 %
of its area: 44
fires: 16,217
km²

Hectares per year

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Fires that entered Melit

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).

Fire danger, today and the coming days

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

Hectares per year

Fires that entered Melit

Where this data comes from