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Fire in Amajuba
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 3,529 fire detections seen from space; 1,097 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2017, 5,016.
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
- 3,529Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 1,097 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 19 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 5 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 5 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 18 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 6 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 15 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 40 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 261 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 564 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 1,225 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 984 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 387 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 16 ha burnt (0.002% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 12 ha burnt (0.002% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 65 ha burnt (0.009% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 75 ha burnt (0.011% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 365 ha burnt (0.051% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 564 ha burnt (0.079% 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 | 387 | 348 | 386 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 984 | 916 | 903 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 1,225 | 1,172 | 1,422 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 564 | 537 | 721 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 261 | 253 | 253 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 40 | 38 | 51 | 564 ha | 0.079% | 99% |
| April 2026 | 15 | 14 | 17 | 365 ha | 0.051% | 99% |
| March 2026 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 75 ha | 0.011% | 99% |
| February 2026 | 18 | 12 | 13 | 65 ha | 0.009% | 99% |
| January 2026 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 12 ha | 0.002% | 99% |
| December 2025 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| November 2025 | 19 | 16 | 16 | 16 ha | 0.002% | 99% |
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
- 20175,016 fire detections, most in October 2017
- 20184,942 fire detections, most in August 2018
- 20244,515 fire detections, most in August 2024; 105,222 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 105,222 ha (14.8% of the place); 2020, 77,119 ha (10.9% of the place); 2019, 77,054 ha (10.8% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 3,505 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 2,665 | 42,704 ha | 6.0% |
| 2024 | 4,515 | 105,222 ha | 14.8% |
| 2023 | 4,487 | 71,385 ha | 10.1% |
| 2022 | 3,035 | 59,188 ha | 8.3% |
| 2021 | 3,964 | 66,590 ha | 9.4% |
| 2020 | 4,306 | 77,119 ha | 10.9% |
| 2019 | 3,770 | 77,054 ha | 10.8% |
| 2018 | 4,942 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 5,016 | · | · |
| 2016 | 2,443 | · | · |
| 2015 | 2,611 | · | · |
| 2014 | 3,020 | · | · |
| 2013 | 4,445 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 2,651 | · | · |
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 Amajuba, 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.