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Wildfires in Central Darfur

Central Darfur, Sudan: 47 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 9 localities since 2016, burning 146,962 hectares inside the region. The largest was Wadi Salih in November 2016, with 11,300 hectares inside the region. 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.

hectares burned
146,962ha
Since 2016
Of the region
4.7%
31,166 km²
fires
47
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 9
Largest fire
11,300ha
Wadi Salih · November 2016
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 31 Extreme 36° · 11 % · 32 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Extreme 36° · 11 % · 35 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Extreme 36° · 13 % · 35 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Extreme 37° · 10 % · 43 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Extreme 38° · 8 % · 43 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Extreme 38° · 7 % · 43 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Extreme 37° · 10 % · 39 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Extreme 36° · 10 % · 36 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. Mukjar 50,004 ha · 8.0 %
  2. Wadi Salih 30,225 ha · 9.1 %
  3. Bendasi 24,790 ha · 4.5 %
  4. Azum 16,475 ha · 5.1 %
  5. Gharb Jabal Marrah 13,293 ha · 5.6 %
  6. Wasat Jabal Marrah 6,534 ha · 15 %
  7. Zalingi 3,510 ha · 0.6 %
  8. Shamal Jabal Marrah 2,132 ha · 1.9 %

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
2026514,958 Bendasi 4,694 ha
2025615,131 Bendasi 3,616 ha
2024312,148 Azum 6,477 ha
2023519,648 Mukjar 6,461 ha
202226,164 Gharb Jabal Marrah 3,182 ha
202124,334 Gharb Jabal Marrah 2,185 ha
2020414,108 Mukjar 5,114 ha
2019514,942 Wadi Salih 6,252 ha
201849,091 Wasat Jabal Marrah 3,386 ha
201748,470 Mukjar 3,938 ha
2016727,969 Wadi Salih 11,300 ha

All fires in Central Darfur · 47

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/Information Management Working Group (IMWG), OCHA ROSEA (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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