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Wildfires in Kassala
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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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 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 5,100 km² of Kassala at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 555 km², ranking 13th of 17 regions of Sudan.
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 2025, with 1,380 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 146 km². The 2021–2025 average is 179% higher than 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.
March, April and May together hold 48% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 2 May 2023, with detections in 40 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 5,100 km² with at least one detection, 12% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 3,660 | 72% |
| 2 years | 833 | 16% |
| 3 to 5 years | 516 | 10% |
| 6 to 10 years | 83 | 1.6% |
| 11 years or more | 2.4 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 16.25, 36.25 and holds 23% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 146 | 142 |
| 2013 | 219 | 212 |
| 2014 | 279 | 258 |
| 2015 | 668 | 694 |
| 2016 | 167 | 161 |
| 2017 | 419 | 399 |
| 2018 | 229 | 231 |
| 2019 | 690 | 665 |
| 2020 | 820 | 822 |
| 2021 | 663 | 657 |
| 2022 | 458 | 445 |
| 2023 | 1,150 | 1,111 |
| 2024 | 480 | 429 |
| 2025 | 1,380 | 1,291 |
Other regions of Sudan
- South Kordofan41,250 km² in an average year
- South Darfur18,950 km² in an average year
- Blue Nile12,580 km² in an average year
- East Darfur9,250 km² in an average year
- North Darfur4,870 km² in an average year
- North Kordofan4,420 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 regions
- Gash-Barka, Eritrea246 km
- Red Sea273 km
- Tigray, Ethiopia298 km
- River Nile313 km
- Khartoum390 km
- Al Qadarif392 km