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Fire in Enoch Mgijima
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 369 fire detections seen from space; 710 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2024, 2,140.
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
- 369Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 710 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 47 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 10 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 3 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 5 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 9 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 3 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| July 2026 | 17 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 139 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 97 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 36 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 273 ha burnt (0.020% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 82 ha burnt (0.006% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 114 ha burnt (0.008% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 39 ha burnt (0.003% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 71 ha burnt (0.005% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 80 ha burnt (0.006% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 51 ha burnt (0.004% 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 | 36 | 34 | 42 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 97 | 95 | 94 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 139 | 127 | 122 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 17 | 17 | 22 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 1 | 1 | 1 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 51 ha | 0.004% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 80 ha | 0.006% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 71 ha | 0.005% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 39 ha | 0.003% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 114 ha | 0.008% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 82 ha | 0.006% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 47 | 35 | 38 | 273 ha | 0.020% | 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
- 20242,140 fire detections, most in August 2024; 30,732 ha burnt
- 20232,114 fire detections, most in September 2023; 33,380 ha burnt
- 20211,678 fire detections, most in September 2021; 31,940 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2023, 33,380 ha (2.5% of the place); 2021, 31,940 ha (2.4% of the place); 2024, 30,732 ha (2.3% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 312 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 585 | 6,319 ha | 0.47% |
| 2024 | 2,140 | 30,732 ha | 2.3% |
| 2023 | 2,114 | 33,380 ha | 2.5% |
| 2022 | 647 | 8,053 ha | 0.59% |
| 2021 | 1,678 | 31,940 ha | 2.4% |
| 2020 | 329 | 2,773 ha | 0.20% |
| 2019 | 427 | 6,376 ha | 0.47% |
| 2018 | 574 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 390 | · | · |
| 2016 | 684 | · | · |
| 2015 | 831 | · | · |
| 2014 | 1,161 | · | · |
| 2013 | 1,463 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 1,150 | · | · |
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 (Bolotwa, Thembani)
- Ward 2
- Ward 3 (Emthonjeni, eXeni)
- Ward 4 (Illinge, Mvane)
- Ward 5 (Ezibeleni)
- Ward 6 (Ezibeleni)
- Ward 7 (Ezibeleni)
- Ward 8 (Ezibeleni)
- Ward 9 (Komani Park, Laurie Dashwood Park)
- Ward 10 (Balmoral, Bergsig)
- Ward 11 (Aloevale, Victoria Park)
- Ward 12 (Mlungisi)
- Ward 13 (Aloevale, Mlungisi)
- Ward 14 (Mlungisi)
- Ward 15 (Mlungisi)
- Ward 16 (Komani, Westbourne)
- Ward 17 (Komani, Mlungisi)
- Ward 18 (Lesseyton)
- Ward 19
- Ward 20
- Ward 21 (eMbekweni, eZweledinga)
- Ward 22 (Hackney)
- Ward 23
- Ward 24
- Ward 25 (Sada)
- Ward 26 (Whittlesea)
- Ward 27 (Sterkstroom)
- Ward 28 (Molteno, Moordenaarshoek)
- Ward 29
- Ward 30 (Thornhill)
- Ward 31 (Mitford)
- Ward 32
- Ward 33 (Tarkastad, Zola)
- Ward 34 (Hofmeyr, Luxolweni)
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for Enoch Mgijima, 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.