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Wildfires in Zalingi

Zalingi, Sudan, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 3,510 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.6% of its area. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 60).

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. Tue 27 Very high 36° · 12 % · 21 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Extreme 36° · 10 % · 37 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Extreme 36° · 11 % · 26 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Extreme 37° · 11 % · 33 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Extreme 37° · 9 % · 33 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Extreme 37° · 10 % · 36 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very high 37° · 11 % · 33 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Extreme 37° · 9 % · 28 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

3,510
hectares burned
0.6 %
of its area
2
fires
6,192
km²

How many times has Zalingi burned?

Zalingi has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Zalingi fire, May 2026, with 1,205 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
3,510
cumulative ha
3 May 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 Zalingi

  1. 1,205 ha Zalingi fire, May 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,173 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 2,305 ha Azum fire, November 2023 0.4% of the municipality · 3,981 ha in total · 8 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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