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Fire in Bojanala
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 6,853 fire detections seen from space; 1,842 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2023, 12,039.
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
- 6,853Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 1,842 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 24 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 43 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 28 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 61 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 11 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 35 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 120 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 597 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 2,866 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 1,857 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 713 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 498 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 416 ha burnt (0.023% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 73 ha burnt (0.004% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 68 ha burnt (0.004% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 118 ha burnt (0.006% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 1,167 ha burnt (0.064% 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 | 498 | 412 | 498 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 713 | 638 | 689 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 1,857 | 1,686 | 1,965 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 2,866 | 2,711 | 4,054 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 597 | 575 | 550 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 120 | 114 | 126 | 1,167 ha | 0.064% | 99% |
| April 2026 | 35 | 29 | 24 | 118 ha | 0.006% | 99% |
| March 2026 | 11 | 11 | 15 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| February 2026 | 61 | 50 | 43 | 68 ha | 0.004% | 99% |
| January 2026 | 28 | 26 | 29 | 73 ha | 0.004% | 99% |
| December 2025 | 43 | 34 | 50 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| November 2025 | 24 | 17 | 21 | 416 ha | 0.023% | 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
- 202312,039 fire detections, most in August 2023; 202,057 ha burnt
- 20218,255 fire detections, most in June 2021; 142,872 ha burnt
- 20186,652 fire detections, most in September 2018
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2023, 202,057 ha (11.0% of the place); 2021, 142,872 ha (7.8% of the place); 2022, 105,545 ha (5.8% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 6,786 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 4,383 | 66,143 ha | 3.6% |
| 2024 | 3,504 | 57,582 ha | 3.1% |
| 2023 | 12,039 | 202,057 ha | 11.0% |
| 2022 | 6,593 | 105,545 ha | 5.8% |
| 2021 | 8,255 | 142,872 ha | 7.8% |
| 2020 | 6,296 | 101,715 ha | 5.5% |
| 2019 | 3,463 | 45,047 ha | 2.5% |
| 2018 | 6,652 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 4,699 | · | · |
| 2016 | 789 | · | · |
| 2015 | 3,595 | · | · |
| 2014 | 3,557 | · | · |
| 2013 | 3,900 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 5,470 | · | · |
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.
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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.