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Fire in Alfred Nzo
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 3,757 fire detections seen from space; 2,972 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2013, 6,465.
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
- 3,757Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 2,972 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 51 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 28 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 78 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 33 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 18 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 36 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 279 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 467 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 1,271 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 1,171 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 249 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 76 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 15 ha burnt (0.001% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 7.8 ha burnt (0.001% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 95 ha burnt (0.009% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 19 ha burnt (0.002% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 195 ha burnt (0.018% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 2,640 ha burnt (0.25% 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 | 76 | 70 | 81 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 249 | 246 | 260 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 1,171 | 1,148 | 1,272 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 1,271 | 1,246 | 1,484 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 467 | 464 | 542 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 279 | 271 | 267 | 2,640 ha | 0.25% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 36 | 36 | 41 | 195 ha | 0.018% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 33 | 29 | 31 | 19 ha | 0.002% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 78 | 66 | 70 | 95 ha | 0.009% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 28 | 23 | 46 | 7.8 ha | 0.001% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 51 | 45 | 59 | 15 ha | 0.001% | 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
- 20136,465 fire detections, most in August 2013
- 20146,187 fire detections, most in July 2014
- 20235,936 fire detections, most in August 2023; 75,215 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 112,676 ha (10.5% of the place); 2023, 75,215 ha (7.0% of the place); 2021, 68,624 ha (6.4% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 3,678 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 2,317 | 24,887 ha | 2.3% |
| 2024 | 5,867 | 112,676 ha | 10.5% |
| 2023 | 5,936 | 75,215 ha | 7.0% |
| 2022 | 3,614 | 37,261 ha | 3.5% |
| 2021 | 5,303 | 68,624 ha | 6.4% |
| 2020 | 3,572 | 47,578 ha | 4.4% |
| 2019 | 4,475 | 55,957 ha | 5.2% |
| 2018 | 2,696 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 3,268 | · | · |
| 2016 | 1,762 | · | · |
| 2015 | 3,334 | · | · |
| 2014 | 6,187 | · | · |
| 2013 | 6,465 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 4,120 | · | · |
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.
Everything we hold for Alfred Nzo, 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.