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Fire in Cederberg
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 2,007 fire detections seen from space; 23,193 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2025, 2,976.
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
- 2,007Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 23,193 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 46 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 1,772 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 68 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 9 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 27 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 25 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 18 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 12 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 5 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 19 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 49 ha burnt (0.006% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 20,501 ha burnt (2.6% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 2,217 ha burnt (0.28% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 45 ha burnt (0.006% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 346 ha burnt (0.043% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 35 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 | 2 | 2 | 5 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 19 | 18 | 4 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 5 | 5 | 7 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 4 | 4 | 3 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 12 | 12 | 11 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 18 | 17 | 24 | 35 ha | 0.004% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 25 | 24 | 21 | 346 ha | 0.043% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 27 | 21 | 33 | 45 ha | 0.006% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 9 | 8 | 14 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 68 | 64 | 52 | 2,217 ha | 0.28% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 1,772 | 1,592 | 1,832 | 20,501 ha | 2.6% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 46 | 38 | 26 | 49 ha | 0.006% | 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
- 20252,976 fire detections, most in December 2025; 29,981 ha burnt
- 20131,715 fire detections, most in January 2013
- 20161,354 fire detections, most in December 2016
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2025, 29,981 ha (3.7% of the place); 2021, 2,469 ha (0.31% of the place); 2022, 1,961 ha (0.25% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 189 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 2,976 | 29,981 ha | 3.7% |
| 2024 | 140 | 89 ha | 0.011% |
| 2023 | 157 | 1,111 ha | 0.14% |
| 2022 | 340 | 1,961 ha | 0.25% |
| 2021 | 431 | 2,469 ha | 0.31% |
| 2020 | 315 | 1,639 ha | 0.21% |
| 2019 | 170 | 301 ha | 0.038% |
| 2018 | 913 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 981 | · | · |
| 2016 | 1,354 | · | · |
| 2015 | 958 | · | · |
| 2014 | 348 | · | · |
| 2013 | 1,715 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 566 | · | · |
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 (Hex rivier, Bodrif)
- Ward 2 (Citrusdal)
- Ward 3 (Clanwilliam)
- Ward 4 (Elandsbaai, Graafwater)
- Ward 5 (Lambert's Bay, Leipoldtville)
- Ward 6 (Cederberg, Algeria)
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for Cederberg, 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.