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Fire in Frances Baard
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 465 fire detections seen from space; 1,074 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2021, 3,494.
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
- 465Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 1,074 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 31 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 25 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 36 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 12 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| April 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 18 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 42 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 119 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 113 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 40 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 24 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 83 ha burnt (0.006% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 102 ha burnt (0.008% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 215 ha burnt (0.016% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 263 ha burnt (0.020% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 19 ha burnt (0.001% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 392 ha burnt (0.030% 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 | 24 | 16 | 13 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 40 | 38 | 27 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 113 | 108 | 115 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 119 | 100 | 170 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 42 | 40 | 62 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 18 | 16 | 20 | 392 ha | 0.030% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 19 ha | 0.001% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 12 | 7 | 16 | 263 ha | 0.020% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 36 | 23 | 33 | 215 ha | 0.016% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 25 | 15 | 29 | 102 ha | 0.008% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 31 | 19 | 19 | 83 ha | 0.006% | 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
- 20213,494 fire detections, most in October 2021; 122,065 ha burnt
- 20123,388 fire detections, most in November 2012
- 20232,398 fire detections, most in September 2023; 43,733 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2021, 122,065 ha (9.3% of the place); 2023, 43,733 ha (3.3% of the place); 2022, 33,463 ha (2.5% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 409 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 840 | 12,659 ha | 0.96% |
| 2024 | 618 | 6,912 ha | 0.53% |
| 2023 | 2,398 | 43,733 ha | 3.3% |
| 2022 | 2,105 | 33,463 ha | 2.5% |
| 2021 | 3,494 | 122,065 ha | 9.3% |
| 2020 | 1,201 | 30,078 ha | 2.3% |
| 2019 | 437 | 5,177 ha | 0.39% |
| 2018 | 1,784 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 754 | · | · |
| 2016 | 217 | · | · |
| 2015 | 342 | · | · |
| 2014 | 303 | · | · |
| 2013 | 389 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 3,388 | · | · |
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.
Everything we hold for Frances Baard, 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.