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Wildfires in Jonglei

Jonglei, South Sudan: 476 fires with a page have entered 11 of its 11 counties since 2016, burning 4,250,913 hectares inside the region. The largest was Pochalla in January 2026, with 73,756 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very high (FWI 39).

Only fires of 5,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

hectares burned
4,250,913ha
Since 2016
Of the region
35%
122,721 km²
fires
476
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
11
of 11
Largest fire
73,756ha
Pochalla · January 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 5 Very high 39° · 22 % · 41 km/h
  2. Fri 6 Very high 40° · 21 % · 45 km/h
  3. Sat 7 Very high 40° · 23 % · 51 km/h
  4. Sun 8 Low 35° · 38 % · 22 km/h
  5. Mon 9 High 34° · 40 % · 32 km/h
  6. Tue 10 Low 34° · 40 % · 37 km/h
  7. Wed 11 Moderate 34° · 42 % · 26 km/h
  8. Thu 12 Very low 31° · 57 % · 34 km/h

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Burning now in the region

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Pibor 1,019,452 ha · 31 %
  2. Uror 531,460 ha · 43 %
  3. Pochalla 516,742 ha · 62 %
  4. Nyirol 483,060 ha · 68 %
  5. Akobo 368,853 ha · 41 %
  6. Bor South 364,370 ha · 26 %
  7. Canal/Pigi 346,992 ha · 78 %
  8. Ayod 212,126 ha · 16 %
  9. Fangak 147,917 ha · 19 %
  10. Twic East 143,543 ha · 24 %
  11. Duk 116,397 ha · 17 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (5,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202677697,806 Pochalla 73,756 ha
202548504,172 Bor South 69,273 ha
202445381,232 Nyirol 42,327 ha
202335334,800 Nyirol 34,813 ha
202227313,075 Canal/Pigi 30,055 ha
202158537,191 Uror 29,669 ha
202026222,423 Canal/Pigi 32,489 ha
201925192,230 Fangak 15,575 ha
201848396,269 Pibor 44,188 ha
201734283,193 Fangak 32,086 ha
201653388,521 Pibor 27,466 ha

All fires in Jonglei · 476

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/South Sudan Information Management Working Group (IMWG), National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), and OCHA, OCHA South Sudan (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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