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Fire in Collins Chabane
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 1,222 fire detections seen from space; 1,491 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2014, 2,964.
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
- 1,222Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 1,491 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 32 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 0 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| February 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| March 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| April 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| June 2026 | 3 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 146 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 187 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 220 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 630 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 1,491 ha burnt (0.24% 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 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% 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 | 630 | 525 | 906 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 220 | 196 | 235 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 187 | 169 | 206 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 146 | 137 | 196 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 3 | 3 | 5 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 32 | 32 | 61 | 1,491 ha | 0.24% | 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
- 20142,964 fire detections, most in July 2014
- 20232,578 fire detections, most in September 2023; 43,504 ha burnt
- 20211,954 fire detections, most in September 2021; 50,325 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2021, 50,325 ha (8.0% of the place); 2023, 43,504 ha (7.0% of the place); 2025, 40,052 ha (6.4% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 1,190 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 1,794 | 40,052 ha | 6.4% |
| 2024 | 983 | 25,397 ha | 4.1% |
| 2023 | 2,578 | 43,504 ha | 7.0% |
| 2022 | 1,100 | 28,693 ha | 4.6% |
| 2021 | 1,954 | 50,325 ha | 8.0% |
| 2020 | 141 | 2,031 ha | 0.32% |
| 2019 | 497 | 6,722 ha | 1.1% |
| 2018 | 850 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 560 | · | · |
| 2016 | 49 | · | · |
| 2015 | 527 | · | · |
| 2014 | 2,964 | · | · |
| 2013 | 194 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 344 | · | · |
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
- Ward 2
- Ward 3
- Ward 4
- Ward 5
- Ward 6 (Mashamba)
- Ward 7
- Ward 8
- Ward 9
- Ward 10
- Ward 11 (Kadobi)
- Ward 12
- Ward 13
- Ward 14
- Ward 15
- Ward 16
- Ward 17 (Mphambo)
- Ward 18
- Ward 19
- Ward 20 (Jimmy Jones, South Africa)
- Ward 21 (Malamulele)
- Ward 22 (Green Farm, Ka-Madonsi)
- Ward 23
- Ward 24 (Dinga, South Africa)
- Ward 25 (Gijamandzini)
- Ward 26 (Xigalo)
- Ward 27
- Ward 28
- Ward 29 (Ka-Vhele, Phugwane)
- Ward 30 (Madzimu)
- Ward 31 (Ka-Mhinga)
- Ward 32 (Ka-Sunduza, Pafuri Border)
- Ward 33
- Ward 34 (Bevula, Mashobye)
- Ward 35 (Gijana, Govhu)
- Ward 36 (Jilongo, Mabayeni)
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for Collins Chabane, 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.