Wildfires in Kassala
Kassala, Sudan: one fire with a page has entered 2 of its 12 localities since 2016, burning 2,472 hectares inside the region. The largest was Reifi Khashm Elgirba in May 2021, with 2,472 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: extreme (FWI 52).
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
- 2,472ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.1%
- 49,009 km²
- fires
- 1
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 2
- of 12
- Largest fire
- 2,472ha
- Reifi Khashm Elgirba · May 2021
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Sat 24 Extreme 40° · 17 % · 32 km/h
- Sun 25 Extreme 41° · 13 % · 30 km/h
- Mon 26 Extreme 40° · 14 % · 35 km/h
- Tue 27 Extreme 40° · 11 % · 34 km/h
- Wed 28 Extreme 40° · 15 % · 36 km/h
- Thu 29 Extreme 40° · 18 % · 36 km/h
- Fri 30 Extreme 40° · 18 % · 38 km/h
- Sat 31 Extreme 40° · 14 % · 27 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Reifi Khashm Elgirba 2,090 ha · 0.2 %
- Reifi Nahr Atbara 382 ha · 0.2 %
Largest recorded fires
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 2,472 | Reifi Khashm Elgirba 2,472 ha |
All fires in Kassala · 1
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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