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Wildfires in Red Sea
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 08:31 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 1,010 km² of Red Sea at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 123 km², ranking 16th 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 457 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 38 km². The 2021–2025 average is 140% 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.
May, June and July together hold 55% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 15 June 2025, with detections in 30 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,010 km² with at least one detection, 17% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 635 | 63% |
| 2 years | 204 | 20% |
| 3 to 5 years | 152 | 15% |
| 6 to 10 years | 19 | 1.9% |
| 11 years or more | 1.2 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 18.25, 37.75 and holds 59% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 115 | 158 |
| 2013 | 60 | 61 |
| 2014 | 73 | 99 |
| 2015 | 99 | 112 |
| 2016 | 74 | 97 |
| 2017 | 66 | 69 |
| 2018 | 38 | 40 |
| 2019 | 65 | 63 |
| 2020 | 126 | 138 |
| 2021 | 182 | 244 |
| 2022 | 115 | 150 |
| 2023 | 153 | 199 |
| 2024 | 105 | 124 |
| 2025 | 457 | 615 |
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
- Kassala273 km
- River Nile426 km
- Gash-Barka, Eritrea447 km
- Jazan, Saudi Arabia489 km
- Tigray, Ethiopia503 km
- Makkah, Saudi Arabia524 km