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Fire in Amahlathi
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 288 fire detections seen from space; 695 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2024, 2,008.
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
- 288Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 695 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 53 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 6 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 39 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 6 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 14 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 17 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 49 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 9 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 19 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 60 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 11 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 5 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 52 ha burnt (0.012% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 4.4 ha burnt (0.001% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 77 ha burnt (0.017% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 8.9 ha burnt (0.002% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 60 ha burnt (0.013% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 493 ha burnt (0.11% 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 | 5 | 5 | 5 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 11 | 8 | 16 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 60 | 59 | 57 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 19 | 17 | 40 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 9 | 9 | 14 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 49 | 49 | 41 | 493 ha | 0.11% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 17 | 17 | 10 | 60 ha | 0.013% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 14 | 12 | 16 | 8.9 ha | 0.002% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 39 | 30 | 38 | 77 ha | 0.017% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4.4 ha | 0.001% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 53 | 50 | 54 | 52 ha | 0.012% | 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
- 20242,008 fire detections, most in August 2024; 18,746 ha burnt
- 20131,297 fire detections, most in September 2013
- 20231,253 fire detections, most in August 2023; 11,177 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 18,746 ha (4.2% of the place); 2023, 11,177 ha (2.5% of the place); 2021, 8,284 ha (1.9% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 229 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 496 | 3,405 ha | 0.76% |
| 2024 | 2,008 | 18,746 ha | 4.2% |
| 2023 | 1,253 | 11,177 ha | 2.5% |
| 2022 | 379 | 1,859 ha | 0.42% |
| 2021 | 650 | 8,284 ha | 1.9% |
| 2020 | 375 | 911 ha | 0.20% |
| 2019 | 720 | 6,266 ha | 1.4% |
| 2018 | 376 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 813 | · | · |
| 2016 | 388 | · | · |
| 2015 | 587 | · | · |
| 2014 | 627 | · | · |
| 2013 | 1,297 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 677 | · | · |
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 (Bomapass, Gxulu)
- Ward 2 (Nyanga, Skafu)
- Ward 3 (Zindenge, Dontsa)
- Ward 4 (Toise, Cathcart)
- Ward 5 (Bolo)
- Ward 6 (Zidenge, Kubusi)
- Ward 7 (Cenyu, Cumakala)
- Ward 8 (Amabele, Kei Road)
- Ward 9 (Mgwali, Enkululekweni)
- Ward 10 (Burnshill)
- Ward 11 (Upper Ngqumeya)
- Ward 12 (Donqaba, KwaGubevu)
- Ward 13 (Stutterheim, Dohne)
- Ward 14 (Mlungisi, Mzomomhle)
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for Amahlathi, 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.