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Fire in Capricorn
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 4,030 fire detections seen from space; 110 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2023, 4,995.
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
- 4,030Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 110 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 20 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 9 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 22 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 5 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 6 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 24 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 199 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 1,339 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 965 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 507 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 930 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 | 9.2 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 14 ha burnt (0.001% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 87 ha burnt (0.004% 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 | 930 | 759 | 982 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 507 | 467 | 492 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 965 | 894 | 1,301 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 1,339 | 1,271 | 1,619 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 199 | 189 | 215 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 24 | 23 | 20 | 87 ha | 0.004% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 14 ha | 0.001% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 22 | 18 | 31 | 9.2 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 20 | 16 | 14 | 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
- 20234,995 fire detections, most in September 2023; 70,022 ha burnt
- 20254,818 fire detections, most in August 2025; 74,591 ha burnt
- 20224,585 fire detections, most in August 2022; 69,312 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2025, 74,591 ha (3.4% of the place); 2023, 70,022 ha (3.2% of the place); 2022, 69,312 ha (3.2% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 4,001 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 4,818 | 74,591 ha | 3.4% |
| 2024 | 3,104 | 47,103 ha | 2.2% |
| 2023 | 4,995 | 70,022 ha | 3.2% |
| 2022 | 4,585 | 69,312 ha | 3.2% |
| 2021 | 3,215 | 46,051 ha | 2.1% |
| 2020 | 1,569 | 19,989 ha | 0.92% |
| 2019 | 1,661 | 17,786 ha | 0.82% |
| 2018 | 2,860 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 1,614 | · | · |
| 2016 | 1,124 | · | · |
| 2015 | 2,194 | · | · |
| 2014 | 3,838 | · | · |
| 2013 | 2,411 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 2,544 | · | · |
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.