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Fire in Alfred Duma
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 1,492 fire detections seen from space; 453 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2013, 2,855.
Two readings from space. Fire detections are hot spots a VIIRS satellite saw as it passed, each about 375 m across, counted where they fall in the place: a big fire gives many, a short one between passes none. Burnt area is the ground that looks burnt afterwards, from Sentinel-3 at 300 m, in hectares. Neither is a fire report from the ground.
The last twelve months
- 1,492Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 453 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 7 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 1 fire detection |
| January 2026 | 7 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| March 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 50 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 56 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 199 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 476 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 511 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 184 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 453 ha burnt (0.12% of the place) |
| June 2026 | not out yet |
| July 2026 | not out yet |
| August 2026 | not out yet |
| September 2026 | not out yet |
| October 2026 | not out yet |
| Month | Detections | Nominal or high confidence | NOAA-20 (second reading) | Burnt | Share of the place | Land seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | 184 | 168 | 204 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 511 | 494 | 456 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 476 | 461 | 534 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 199 | 194 | 265 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 56 | 56 | 70 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 50 | 49 | 43 | 453 ha | 0.12% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
NOAA-20 carries the same instrument as S-NPP and passes about 50 minutes apart, so its count is a second reading of the same fires, not extra fires. “Land seen” is the share of the place’s land the burnt-area product saw often enough that month to tell.
The worst years
- 20132,855 fire detections, most in August 2013
- 20202,130 fire detections, most in August 2020; 31,748 ha burnt
- 20211,911 fire detections, most in September 2021; 20,306 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2020, 31,748 ha (8.4% of the place); 2024, 21,263 ha (5.6% of the place); 2023, 21,020 ha (5.6% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 1,484 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 1,106 | 11,377 ha | 3.0% |
| 2024 | 1,456 | 21,263 ha | 5.6% |
| 2023 | 1,793 | 21,020 ha | 5.6% |
| 2022 | 1,027 | 11,504 ha | 3.1% |
| 2021 | 1,911 | 20,306 ha | 5.4% |
| 2020 | 2,130 | 31,748 ha | 8.4% |
| 2019 | 1,222 | 15,927 ha | 4.2% |
| 2018 | 1,855 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 1,510 | · | · |
| 2016 | 777 | · | · |
| 2015 | 643 | · | · |
| 2014 | 1,187 | · | · |
| 2013 | 2,855 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 1,634 | · | · |
Detections from February 2012 (S-NPP); burnt area from July 2018, so whole years of it from 2019. A larger place’s figures are the sums of its 2026 wards.
Each ward
- Ward 1
- Ward 2
- Ward 3
- Ward 4
- Ward 5 (Ezakheni)
- Ward 6 (Ezakheni)
- Ward 7 (Doomkraal)
- Ward 8 (Ezakheni)
- Ward 9 (Steadville)
- Ward 10 (Leonardsville, Jabuva)
- Ward 11 (Roosboom)
- Ward 12 (Egerton, Hyde Park)
- Ward 13 (Hillside, Hospital Park)
- Ward 14 (Burford, Klipfontein)
- Ward 15
- Ward 16 (Kirkintullock)
- Ward 17 (eMahhukwini)
- Ward 18
- Ward 19 (eMhlwaneni, eNtantane)
- Ward 20 (Acaciavale, Aloe Park)
- Ward 21 (Danskraal, White City)
- Ward 22 (uMnambithi, Limit Hill Township)
- Ward 23 (Matiwane)
- Ward 24 (Cremin, Indayana)
- Ward 25 (Colenso)
- Ward 26 (eNkuthu, Van Reenen)
- Ward 27
- Ward 28 (Pearl, Wittekleifontein)
- Ward 29
- Ward 30 (Imbangi, Hwebede)
- Ward 31 (Dalakosi, Opmerksaamheid)
- Ward 32 (Amakasi, Asyn kraal)
- Ward 33
- Ward 34 (eTholeni, Klippoort)
- Ward 35 (Amakhosi, Dival)
- Ward 36 (Ezihlabathini, Kliprivier)
- Ward 37
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for Alfred Duma, on one page
Source
Seen from space by American and European satellites: not fires reported on the ground.
How we worked this out
What we changed: we counted FIRMS’s detections (presumed vegetation fires only) by the 2026 ward their position falls in, and summed CLMS’s burned fraction times each pixel’s area over each ward; municipalities, districts and provinces are the sums of their wards.
Fire detections: we acknowledge the use of data and/or imagery from NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), part of NASA’s LANCE (VIIRS 375 m, S-NPP and NOAA-20). Burnt area: generated using European Union’s Copernicus Land Monitoring Service information (Burnt Area 300 m version 4, DOI 10.2909/8fa58061-28ab-49bb-9b77-c26b50733e34), modified; this does not mean the European Union endorses us.
Dataset: burnt area and fire, release of 12 November 2026.