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Fire in eDumbe
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 1,081 fire detections seen from space; 1,120 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2019, 1,556.
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
- 1,081Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 1,120 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 19 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 22 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 52 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 43 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 24 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 20 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 81 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 59 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 222 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 244 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 161 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 134 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 | 42 ha burnt (0.022% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 16 ha burnt (0.009% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 577 ha burnt (0.30% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 371 ha burnt (0.20% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 114 ha burnt (0.060% 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 | 134 | 117 | 113 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 161 | 141 | 190 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 244 | 232 | 290 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 222 | 214 | 305 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 59 | 59 | 62 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 81 | 81 | 77 | 114 ha | 0.060% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 20 | 20 | 26 | 371 ha | 0.20% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 577 ha | 0.30% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 43 | 35 | 47 | 16 ha | 0.009% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 52 | 46 | 50 | 42 ha | 0.022% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 22 | 21 | 17 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 19 | 14 | 29 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 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
- 20191,556 fire detections, most in July 2019; 18,097 ha burnt
- 20131,279 fire detections, most in August 2013
- 20141,269 fire detections, most in July 2014
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2019, 18,097 ha (9.5% of the place); 2024, 17,804 ha (9.4% of the place); 2023, 12,599 ha (6.6% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 1,040 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 1,160 | 8,815 ha | 4.6% |
| 2024 | 1,127 | 17,804 ha | 9.4% |
| 2023 | 1,196 | 12,599 ha | 6.6% |
| 2022 | 1,206 | 8,872 ha | 4.7% |
| 2021 | 1,205 | 11,200 ha | 5.9% |
| 2020 | 1,194 | 11,410 ha | 6.0% |
| 2019 | 1,556 | 18,097 ha | 9.5% |
| 2018 | 1,008 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 1,069 | · | · |
| 2016 | 881 | · | · |
| 2015 | 834 | · | · |
| 2014 | 1,269 | · | · |
| 2013 | 1,279 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 1,205 | · | · |
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 (Braunschweig, Lüneburg)
- Ward 2
- Ward 3 (Dumbe)
- Ward 4
- Ward 5 (Gontshi, Hartland)
- Ward 6 (Fundukzama)
- Ward 7
- Ward 8 (Opuzane)
- Ward 9 (Paulpietersburg)
- Ward 10
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for eDumbe, 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.