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Wildfires in Northern
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 07:28 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 1,200 km² of Northern at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 117 km², ranking 17th 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 2024, with 185 km² detected; the quietest was 2012, with 36 km². The 2021–2025 average is 129% 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.
April, May and June together hold 34% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 1 April 2014, with detections in 6 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,200 km² with at least one detection, 7.7% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 903 | 75% |
| 2 years | 208 | 17% |
| 3 to 5 years | 91 | 7.6% |
| 6 to 10 years | 1.2 | 0.1% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 18.25, 31.75 and holds 16% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 36 | 33 |
| 2013 | 46 | 41 |
| 2014 | 74 | 65 |
| 2015 | 104 | 98 |
| 2016 | 88 | 79 |
| 2017 | 84 | 74 |
| 2018 | 85 | 79 |
| 2019 | 150 | 136 |
| 2020 | 174 | 159 |
| 2021 | 124 | 116 |
| 2022 | 166 | 152 |
| 2023 | 150 | 133 |
| 2024 | 185 | 163 |
| 2025 | 168 | 152 |
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
- River Nile218 km
- Khartoum350 km
- Al Jazirah457 km
- Kassala527 km
- North Kordofan594 km
- Red Sea633 km