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Wildfires in Unity

Unity, South Sudan: 97 fires with a page have entered 9 of its 9 counties since 2016, burning 766,108 hectares inside the region. The largest was Abiemnhom in 19 November 2025, with 41,170 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 67).

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
766,108ha
Since 2016
Of the region
21%
37,351 km²
fires
97
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
9
of 9
Largest fire
41,170ha
Abiemnhom · 19 November 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Very high 39° · 24 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Extreme 40° · 21 % · 48 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very high 40° · 21 % · 25 km/h
  4. Mon 26 High 39° · 25 % · 21 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very high 38° · 31 % · 32 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very high 38° · 26 % · 31 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very high 40° · 17 % · 36 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very high 40° · 14 % · 32 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

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. Abiemnhom 154,252 ha · 64 %
  2. Koch 146,631 ha · 33 %
  3. Pariang 135,937 ha · 15 %
  4. Mayendit 87,311 ha · 28 %
  5. Rubkona 79,288 ha · 22 %
  6. Guit 66,787 ha · 19 %
  7. Panyijiar 50,908 ha · 9.5 %
  8. Mayom 23,790 ha · 5.5 %
  9. Leer 21,204 ha · 13 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 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
2026732,179 Pariang 7,418 ha
20256123,230 Abiemnhom 41,170 ha
20241080,564 Koch 14,549 ha
2023423,550 Panyijiar 7,184 ha
202228,177 Pariang 7,922 ha
2021426,479 Abiemnhom 7,893 ha
2020755,393 Abiemnhom 13,848 ha
2019965,531 Mayendit 12,205 ha
2018952,428 Koch 15,056 ha
201719175,167 Rubkona 32,391 ha
201620123,410 Panyijiar 13,650 ha

All fires in Unity · 97

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).