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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

Fire detections (most 630)November 2025: 32 fire detectionsDecember 2025: 0 fire detectionsJanuary 2026: 1 fire detectionFebruary 2026: 1 fire detectionMarch 2026: 1 fire detectionApril 2026: 0 fire detectionsMay 2026: 1 fire detectionJune 2026: 3 fire detectionsJuly 2026: 146 fire detectionsAugust 2026: 187 fire detectionsSeptember 2026: 220 fire detectionsOctober 2026: 630 fire detectionsHectares burnt (most 1,491)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 yetJuly 2026: not out yetAugust 2026: not out yetSeptember 2026: not out yetOctober 2026: not out yetNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct
Fire detections and hectares burnt each month in Collins Chabane, November 2025 to October 2026. A flat tick is a month the source has not covered yet; burnt area comes out some weeks after the detections.
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Fire detections and hectares burnt each month in Collins Chabane, November 2025 to October 2026.: every figure
When or whatFigure
November 202532 fire detections
December 20250 fire detections
January 20261 fire detection
February 20261 fire detection
March 20261 fire detection
April 20260 fire detections
May 20261 fire detection
June 20263 fire detections
July 2026146 fire detections
August 2026187 fire detections
September 2026220 fire detections
October 2026630 fire detections
November 20251,491 ha burnt (0.24% of the place)
December 20250.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place)
January 20260.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place)
February 20260.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place)
March 20260.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place)
April 20260.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place)
May 20260.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place)
June 2026not out yet
July 2026not out yet
August 2026not out yet
September 2026not out yet
October 2026not out yet
MonthDetectionsNominal or high confidenceNOAA-20 (second reading)BurntShare of the placeLand seen
October 2026630525906not out yet··
September 2026220196235not out yet··
August 2026187169206not out yet··
July 2026146137196not out yet··
June 2026335not out yet··
May 20261120.0 ha0.000%100%
April 20260000.0 ha0.000%100%
March 20261010.0 ha0.000%100%
February 20261020.0 ha0.000%100%
January 20261100.0 ha0.000%100%
December 20250000.0 ha0.000%100%
November 20253232611,491 ha0.24%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

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

YearFire detectionsBurntShare of the place
2026 (10 months)1,1905 months out·
20251,79440,052 ha6.4%
202498325,397 ha4.1%
20232,57843,504 ha7.0%
20221,10028,693 ha4.6%
20211,95450,325 ha8.0%
20201412,031 ha0.32%
20194976,722 ha1.1%
20188506 months out·
2017560··
201649··
2015527··
20142,964··
2013194··
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

Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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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.

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