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Fire in Ehlanzeni
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 5,868 fire detections seen from space; 6,094 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2014, 15,895.
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
- 5,868Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 6,094 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 33 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 92 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 49 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 180 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 58 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 56 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 355 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 792 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 1,819 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 1,049 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 571 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 814 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 1.4 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 7.7 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 88 ha burnt (0.003% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 289 ha burnt (0.010% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 1,169 ha burnt (0.042% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 285 ha burnt (0.010% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 4,254 ha burnt (0.15% 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 | 814 | 701 | 852 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 571 | 524 | 595 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 1,049 | 969 | 1,247 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 1,819 | 1,733 | 2,235 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 792 | 776 | 767 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 355 | 338 | 370 | 4,254 ha | 0.15% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 56 | 55 | 68 | 285 ha | 0.010% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 58 | 49 | 71 | 1,169 ha | 0.042% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 180 | 161 | 165 | 289 ha | 0.010% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 49 | 43 | 60 | 88 ha | 0.003% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 92 | 81 | 83 | 7.7 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 33 | 28 | 65 | 1.4 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
- 201415,895 fire detections, most in September 2014
- 202113,612 fire detections, most in May 2021; 194,414 ha burnt
- 202313,095 fire detections, most in August 2023; 233,255 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2023, 233,255 ha (8.4% of the place); 2024, 232,375 ha (8.3% of the place); 2025, 196,092 ha (7.0% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 5,743 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 9,448 | 196,092 ha | 7.0% |
| 2024 | 12,798 | 232,375 ha | 8.3% |
| 2023 | 13,095 | 233,255 ha | 8.4% |
| 2022 | 7,349 | 115,960 ha | 4.2% |
| 2021 | 13,612 | 194,414 ha | 7.0% |
| 2020 | 8,950 | 131,411 ha | 4.7% |
| 2019 | 9,976 | 121,159 ha | 4.3% |
| 2018 | 8,501 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 7,653 | · | · |
| 2016 | 5,888 | · | · |
| 2015 | 9,486 | · | · |
| 2014 | 15,895 | · | · |
| 2013 | 12,086 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 11,124 | · | · |
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.
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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.