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Fire in Dawid Kruiper
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 110 fire detections seen from space; 90 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2022, 5,423.
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
- 110Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 90 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 5 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 0 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 5 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 26 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 7 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 3 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 5 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 7 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 6 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 40 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 | 90 ha burnt (0.002% 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 | 40 | 21 | 32 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 2 | 2 | 3 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 6 | 6 | 6 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 7 | 6 | 8 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 5 | 5 | 13 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| April 2026 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| March 2026 | 7 | 5 | 17 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| February 2026 | 26 | 15 | 18 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| January 2026 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 90 ha | 0.002% | 99% |
| December 2025 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| November 2025 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
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
- 20225,423 fire detections, most in September 2022; 120,836 ha burnt
- 20122,154 fire detections, most in September 2012
- 2021792 fire detections, most in September 2021; 22,271 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2022, 120,836 ha (2.7% of the place); 2021, 22,271 ha (0.50% of the place); 2024, 245 ha (0.004% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 105 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 102 | 56 ha | 0.001% |
| 2024 | 89 | 245 ha | 0.004% |
| 2023 | 61 | 164 ha | 0.004% |
| 2022 | 5,423 | 120,836 ha | 2.7% |
| 2021 | 792 | 22,271 ha | 0.50% |
| 2020 | 85 | 24 ha | 0.001% |
| 2019 | 75 | 19 ha | 0.000% |
| 2018 | 52 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 408 | · | · |
| 2016 | 112 | · | · |
| 2015 | 64 | · | · |
| 2014 | 70 | · | · |
| 2013 | 210 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 2,154 | · | · |
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 (Hillside, Mountain View)
- Ward 2 (Morning Glory)
- Ward 3 (Belview)
- Ward 4 (Progress)
- Ward 5 (Louisvale - Upington)
- Ward 6 (Paballelo)
- Ward 7 (Upington)
- Ward 8 (Die Rand, Florapark)
- Ward 9 (Keidebees, Middelpos)
- Ward 10 (Vaalkroek)
- Ward 11 (Blydeville, Lemoendraai)
- Ward 12 (Louisvale, Raaswater)
- Ward 13 (Paballelo)
- Ward 14 (Nuwerus, Karos)
- Ward 15 (Rosedale)
- Ward 16 (Witdraai, Andriesvale)
- Ward 17 (Groot Mier, Klein Mier)
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.