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Wildfires in South Sudan
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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Regions
- Central Equatoria24 fires
- Eastern Equatoria41 fires
- Jonglei20 fires
- Lakes28 fires
- Northern Bahr el Ghazal24 fires
- Unity14 fires
- Upper Nile37 fires
- Warrap20 fires
- Western Bahr el Ghazal61 fires
- Western Equatoria27 fires
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-21
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 604,110 km² of South Sudan at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 321,060 km², ranking 9th of 200 countries.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2016, with 357,260 km² detected; the quietest was 2019, with 263,170 km². The 2021–2025 average is within 5% of the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
December, January and February together hold 73% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 31 December 2024, with detections in 9,855 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 604,110 km² with at least one detection, 92% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 20,900 | 3.5% |
| 2 years | 24,800 | 4.1% |
| 3 to 5 years | 119,490 | 20% |
| 6 to 10 years | 335,830 | 56% |
| 11 years or more | 103,100 | 17% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 8.75, 33.25 and holds 0.9% of the country's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 278,220 | 308,111 |
| 2013 | 314,520 | 375,927 |
| 2014 | 323,720 | 399,058 |
| 2015 | 352,140 | 452,662 |
| 2016 | 357,260 | 462,103 |
| 2017 | 320,770 | 399,723 |
| 2018 | 351,970 | 450,715 |
| 2019 | 263,170 | 305,544 |
| 2020 | 328,030 | 417,042 |
| 2021 | 322,330 | 405,455 |
| 2022 | 286,230 | 346,636 |
| 2023 | 316,260 | 401,166 |
| 2024 | 347,190 | 463,064 |
| 2025 | 332,950 | 432,146 |
Nearby countries
- Democratic Republic of the Congo898,730 km² in an average year
- Angola616,940 km² in an average year
- Zambia445,810 km² in an average year
- Mozambique404,050 km² in an average year
- Central African Republic340,550 km² in an average year
- Tanzania263,100 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby countries
What sits behind each of these fires
Attached to every fire in the list above, and redrawn hourly.
