Wildfires in Sheikan
Sheikan, Sudan, has had 4 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 22,280 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.6% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 61).
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 38° · 13 % · 38 km/h
- Sat 24 Extreme 39° · 12 % · 40 km/h
- Sun 25 Extreme 38° · 11 % · 36 km/h
- Mon 26 Extreme 38° · 11 % · 34 km/h
- Tue 27 Extreme 38° · 10 % · 35 km/h
- Wed 28 Extreme 37° · 10 % · 39 km/h
- Thu 29 Extreme 37° · 12 % · 39 km/h
- Fri 30 Extreme 36° · 12 % · 39 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
- 22,280
- hectares burned
- 2.6 %
- of its area
- 4
- fires
- 8,459
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Sheikan
- 2,051 ha Sheikan fire, 8 November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 6,102 ha in total · 3 days
- 14,474 ha Sheikan fire, 7 November 2025 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 14,405 ha in total · 6 days
- 3,746 ha Sheikan fire, October 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 3,729 ha in total · 3 days
- 2,009 ha Sheikan fire, February 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,000 ha in total · 2 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).