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Wildfires in North Darfur
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 10:27 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 35,860 km² of North Darfur at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 4,870 km², ranking 5th 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 12,690 km² detected; the quietest was 2016, with 2,240 km². The 2021–2025 average is 151% 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.
October, November and December together hold 59% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 22 October 2024, with detections in 352 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 35,860 km² with at least one detection, 24% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 18,530 | 52% |
| 2 years | 8,670 | 24% |
| 3 to 5 years | 8,120 | 23% |
| 6 to 10 years | 537 | 1.5% |
| 11 years or more | 1.2 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 12.75, 26.25 and holds 10% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 3,170 | 2,809 |
| 2013 | 4,610 | 4,077 |
| 2014 | 2,760 | 2,466 |
| 2015 | 2,380 | 2,105 |
| 2016 | 2,240 | 1,975 |
| 2017 | 2,310 | 2,049 |
| 2018 | 2,790 | 2,418 |
| 2019 | 3,780 | 3,339 |
| 2020 | 6,080 | 5,447 |
| 2021 | 5,900 | 5,268 |
| 2022 | 4,990 | 4,421 |
| 2023 | 5,810 | 5,215 |
| 2024 | 8,690 | 7,811 |
| 2025 | 12,690 | 11,776 |
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 Kordofan4,420 km² in an average year
- Sennar4,310 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
- Central Darfur277 km
- North Kordofan292 km
- East Darfur338 km
- West Soudan433 km
- South Darfur446 km
- Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan503 km