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Fire in Dannhauser
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 632 fire detections seen from space; 86 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2018, 904.
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
- 632Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 86 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 1 fire detection |
| December 2025 | 1 fire detection |
| January 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| April 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| May 2026 | 10 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 42 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 170 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 136 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 189 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 79 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 | 12 ha burnt (0.007% 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 | 74 ha burnt (0.043% 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 | 79 | 70 | 72 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 189 | 180 | 172 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 136 | 122 | 123 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 170 | 156 | 208 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 42 | 41 | 43 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 74 ha | 0.043% | 98% |
| April 2026 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 98% |
| March 2026 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 98% |
| February 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 98% |
| January 2026 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 12 ha | 0.007% | 98% |
| December 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 98% |
| November 2025 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 98% |
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
- 2018904 fire detections, most in September 2018
- 2024852 fire detections, most in August 2024; 19,083 ha burnt
- 2020804 fire detections, most in September 2020; 13,823 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 19,083 ha (11.2% of the place); 2020, 13,823 ha (8.1% of the place); 2021, 9,429 ha (5.5% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 630 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 463 | 4,642 ha | 2.7% |
| 2024 | 852 | 19,083 ha | 11.2% |
| 2023 | 787 | 9,356 ha | 5.5% |
| 2022 | 500 | 6,522 ha | 3.8% |
| 2021 | 720 | 9,429 ha | 5.5% |
| 2020 | 804 | 13,823 ha | 8.1% |
| 2019 | 664 | 5,800 ha | 3.4% |
| 2018 | 904 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 649 | · | · |
| 2016 | 285 | · | · |
| 2015 | 280 | · | · |
| 2014 | 573 | · | · |
| 2013 | 595 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 441 | · | · |
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 (Normandien)
- Ward 2 (Dannhauser, Cornwall)
- Ward 3 (Geduld, Nguqunguqu)
- Ward 4 (Chester, Cork)
- Ward 5 (Cloneen, Hadebe)
- Ward 6 (Anville, Jesse Farm)
- Ward 7 (Annieville, Hiltop)
- Ward 8 (Clifton, Donker)
- Ward 9 (Clere, Groot Geluk)
- Ward 10 (Eastbourne, Martha)
- Ward 11 (Kilegethe, Nellie Valley)
- Ward 12 (Annandale, Doomkop)
- Ward 13 (Fairbreeze, Flint)
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for Dannhauser, 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.