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Wildfires in Um Durein

Um Durein, Sudan, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 22,108 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 54).

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. Mon 2 Extreme 40° · 16 % · 27 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Extreme 40° · 13 % · 34 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Extreme 40° · 12 % · 32 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Extreme 41° · 10 % · 31 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Extreme 40° · 11 % · 39 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Extreme 40° · 13 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very extreme 38° · 15 % · 44 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Extreme 38° · 14 % · 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

22,108
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
11
fires
2,141
km²

How many times has Um Durein burned?

Um Durein has burned 11 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Um Durein fire, 14 October 2026, with 1,730 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 22,108 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 17,919 hectares, 8.4 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 3× 26
11
fires
6
years with fire
22,108
cumulative ha
17,919
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 Durein

  1. 1,730 ha Um Durein fire, 14 October 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,583 ha in total · 12 days
  2. 4,770 ha Um Durein fire, 10 October 2026 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 5,256 ha in total · 19 days
  3. 2,817 ha Um Durein fire, March 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,801 ha in total · 7 days
  4. 101 ha Ar Reif Ash Shargi fire, November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 2,131 ha in total · 8 days
  5. 2,988 ha Um Durein fire, 4 November 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,149 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 1,091 ha Um Durein fire, 4 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,590 ha in total · 5 days
  7. 3,043 ha Um Durein fire, October 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,898 ha in total · 15 days
  8. 1,166 ha Ar Reif Ash Shargi fire, December 2023 0.5% of the municipality · 2,580 ha in total · 4 days
  9. 3,189 ha Um Durein fire, February 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 3,169 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 1,073 ha Ar Reif Ash Shargi fire, December 2019 0.5% of the municipality · 6,422 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 141 ha Ar Reif Ash Shargi fire, November 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 2,552 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).

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