Wildfires in Gedaref
Gedaref, Sudan: 4 fires with a page have entered 3 of its 11 localities since 2016, burning 5,371 hectares inside the region. The largest was Gala'a Al Nahal in March 2024, with 2,383 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 58).
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
- 5,371ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.1%
- 59,884 km²
- fires
- 4
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 3
- of 11
- Largest fire
- 2,383ha
- Gala'a Al Nahal · March 2024
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Extreme 41° · 16 % · 31 km/h
- Sat 24 Extreme 41° · 14 % · 33 km/h
- Sun 25 Extreme 41° · 12 % · 35 km/h
- Mon 26 Extreme 42° · 11 % · 38 km/h
- Tue 27 Extreme 41° · 9 % · 41 km/h
- Wed 28 Extreme 40° · 8 % · 31 km/h
- Thu 29 Extreme 40° · 10 % · 41 km/h
- Fri 30 Extreme 39° · 18 % · 37 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Basundah 2,917 ha · 0.8 %
- Gala'a Al Nahal 2,344 ha · 0.6 %
- Al Galabat Al Gharbyah - Kassab 110 ha · 0.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 2×Basundah2,917 ha
- 2×Al Galabat Al Gharbyah - Kassab110 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,383 haGala'a Al NahalMarch 2024 · 2 days
- 1,583 haBasundahDecember 2025 · 5 days of 2,480 ha in total
- 1,334 haBasundahNovember 2019 · 4 days of 2,659 ha in total
- 71 haAd Dinder5 November 2025 · 4 days of 2,875 ha in total
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2 | 1,654 | Basundah 1,583 ha |
| 2024 | 1 | 2,383 | Gala'a Al Nahal 2,383 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 1,334 | Basundah 1,334 ha |
All fires in Gedaref · 4
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).