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Fire in Emadlangeni
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 1,861 fire detections seen from space; 614 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2017, 2,900.
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
- 1,861Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 614 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 17 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 3 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 9 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 12 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 17 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 81 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 209 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 750 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 550 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 209 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 16 ha burnt (0.004% 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 | 65 ha burnt (0.018% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 75 ha burnt (0.021% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 365 ha burnt (0.10% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 93 ha burnt (0.026% 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 | 209 | 189 | 216 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 550 | 507 | 521 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 750 | 721 | 920 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 209 | 202 | 251 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 81 | 78 | 81 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 93 ha | 0.026% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 12 | 11 | 14 | 365 ha | 0.10% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 75 ha | 0.021% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 65 ha | 0.018% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 16 ha | 0.004% | 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
- 20172,900 fire detections, most in September 2017
- 20232,519 fire detections, most in August 2023; 48,820 ha burnt
- 20202,366 fire detections, most in September 2020; 47,154 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 53,645 ha (15.2% of the place); 2019, 50,708 ha (14.3% of the place); 2023, 48,820 ha (13.8% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 1,841 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 1,640 | 32,023 ha | 9.0% |
| 2024 | 2,167 | 53,645 ha | 15.2% |
| 2023 | 2,519 | 48,820 ha | 13.8% |
| 2022 | 1,656 | 40,510 ha | 11.4% |
| 2021 | 1,916 | 40,363 ha | 11.4% |
| 2020 | 2,366 | 47,154 ha | 13.3% |
| 2019 | 1,986 | 50,708 ha | 14.3% |
| 2018 | 2,361 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 2,900 | · | · |
| 2016 | 1,433 | · | · |
| 2015 | 1,438 | · | · |
| 2014 | 1,594 | · | · |
| 2013 | 2,352 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 1,165 | · | · |
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.