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Wildfires in Um Baru

Um Baru, Sudan, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 75,641 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.6% 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. Sun 1 Extreme 33° · 8 % · 37 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Extreme 33° · 7 % · 41 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Extreme 34° · 10 % · 43 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very extreme 32° · 12 % · 45 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Extreme 32° · 18 % · 49 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Extreme 32° · 12 % · 46 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Extreme 32° · 12 % · 44 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Extreme 31° · 17 % · 48 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

75,641
hectares burned
4.6 %
of its area
23
fires
16,492
km²

How many times has Um Baru burned?

Um Baru has burned 23 times since 2016, in 4 years: 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Um Baru fire, September 2026, with 2,561 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 75,641 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 63,496 hectares, 3.9 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 4× 24
  10. 11× 25
  11. 6× 26
23
fires
4
years with fire
75,641
cumulative ha
63,496
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 Um Baru

  1. 2,561 ha Um Baru fire, September 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,556 ha in total · 4 days
  2. 2,273 ha Um Baru fire, April 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,267 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 4,769 ha Um Baru fire, February 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 4,759 ha in total · 3 days
  4. 928 ha Kutum fire, February 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 2,581 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 2,584 ha Um Baru fire, 24 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,579 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 2,344 ha Um Baru fire, 21 January 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,340 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 10,664 ha Um Baru fire, 14 December 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 10,646 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 4,096 ha Um Baru fire, 9 December 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 4,087 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 2,263 ha Um Baru fire, 9 November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,259 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 2,270 ha Um Baru fire, 4 November 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,263 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 4,877 ha Um Baru fire, 23 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 6,580 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 2,588 ha Um Baru fire, 18 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,586 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 2,773 ha Um Baru fire, 18 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,313 ha in total · 2 days
  14. 5,946 ha Um Baru fire, 17 October 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 5,935 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 2,989 ha Um Baru fire, March 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,411 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 3,880 ha Um Baru fire, February 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,868 ha in total · 3 days
  17. 2,257 ha Um Baru fire, January 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,253 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 3,607 ha Um Baru fire, 29 December 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,601 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 1,746 ha As Serief fire, December 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 3,760 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 3,185 ha Um Baru fire, 1 December 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 3,179 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 2,344 ha Um Baru fire, November 2024 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,340 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 2,337 ha Um Baru fire, April 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,334 ha in total · 2 days
  23. 2,359 ha Um Baru fire, March 2022 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 2,356 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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