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Fire in Greater Giyani

Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 531 fire detections seen from space; 0.0 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2022, 948.

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

Fire detections (most 164)November 2025: 3 fire detectionsDecember 2025: 3 fire detectionsJanuary 2026: 2 fire detectionsFebruary 2026: 0 fire detectionsMarch 2026: 0 fire detectionsApril 2026: 2 fire detectionsMay 2026: 2 fire detectionsJune 2026: 1 fire detectionJuly 2026: 54 fire detectionsAugust 2026: 164 fire detectionsSeptember 2026: 146 fire detectionsOctober 2026: 154 fire detectionsHectares burnt (most 1)November 2025: 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% 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: 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place)March 2026: 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place)April 2026: 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place)May 2026: 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place)June 2026: not out yetJuly 2026: not out yetAugust 2026: not out yetSeptember 2026: not out yetOctober 2026: not out yetNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct
Fire detections and hectares burnt each month in Greater Giyani, November 2025 to October 2026. A flat tick is a month the source has not covered yet; burnt area comes out some weeks after the detections.
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Fire detections and hectares burnt each month in Greater Giyani, November 2025 to October 2026.: every figure
When or whatFigure
November 20253 fire detections
December 20253 fire detections
January 20262 fire detections
February 20260 fire detections
March 20260 fire detections
April 20262 fire detections
May 20262 fire detections
June 20261 fire detection
July 202654 fire detections
August 2026164 fire detections
September 2026146 fire detections
October 2026154 fire detections
November 20250.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place)
December 20250.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place)
January 20260.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place)
February 20260.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place)
March 20260.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place)
April 20260.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place)
May 20260.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place)
June 2026not out yet
July 2026not out yet
August 2026not out yet
September 2026not out yet
October 2026not out yet
MonthDetectionsNominal or high confidenceNOAA-20 (second reading)BurntShare of the placeLand seen
October 2026154132151not out yet··
September 2026146123177not out yet··
August 2026164150228not out yet··
July 2026545371not out yet··
June 2026114not out yet··
May 20262210.0 ha0.000%100%
April 20262210.0 ha0.000%100%
March 20260000.0 ha0.000%100%
February 20260010.0 ha0.000%100%
January 20262200.0 ha0.000%100%
December 20253220.0 ha0.000%100%
November 20253120.0 ha0.000%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

By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2021, 20,385 ha (4.9% of the place); 2025, 13,039 ha (3.2% of the place); 2022, 12,280 ha (3.0% of the place).

Every year since 2012

YearFire detectionsBurntShare of the place
2026 (10 months)5255 months out·
202559913,039 ha3.2%
20241462,608 ha0.63%
202382611,480 ha2.8%
202294812,280 ha3.0%
202172220,385 ha4.9%
202080976 ha0.24%
20192201,896 ha0.46%
2018966 months out·
2017149··
201615··
201535··
2014852··
2013107··
2012 (11 months)576··

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.

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