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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
- 531Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 0.0 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 3 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 3 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| July 2026 | 54 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 164 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 146 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 154 fire detections |
| 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 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 | 154 | 132 | 151 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 146 | 123 | 177 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 164 | 150 | 228 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 54 | 53 | 71 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 1 | 1 | 4 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0.0 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
- 2022948 fire detections, most in October 2022; 12,280 ha burnt
- 2014852 fire detections, most in July 2014
- 2023826 fire detections, most in September 2023; 11,480 ha burnt
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
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 525 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 599 | 13,039 ha | 3.2% |
| 2024 | 146 | 2,608 ha | 0.63% |
| 2023 | 826 | 11,480 ha | 2.8% |
| 2022 | 948 | 12,280 ha | 3.0% |
| 2021 | 722 | 20,385 ha | 4.9% |
| 2020 | 80 | 976 ha | 0.24% |
| 2019 | 220 | 1,896 ha | 0.46% |
| 2018 | 96 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 149 | · | · |
| 2016 | 15 | · | · |
| 2015 | 35 | · | · |
| 2014 | 852 | · | · |
| 2013 | 107 | · | · |
| 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
- Ward 1
- Ward 2 (Ghandlanani)
- Ward 3
- Ward 4 (Basani, Dingamanzi)
- Ward 5 (Ka-Nkuri)
- Ward 6 (Ka-Nhlaneki)
- Ward 7 (Ka-Siandana, Kremetart)
- Ward 8 (Ka-Dizingidzingi, Ka-Maswanganyi)
- Ward 9 (Ka-Homu)
- Ward 10 (Ka-Nkomo)
- Ward 11 (Kremetart)
- Ward 12 (Giyani)
- Ward 13
- Ward 14 (Ka-Makoxa)
- Ward 15
- Ward 16
- Ward 17 (Thomo)
- Ward 18 (Khakhala)
- Ward 19 (Ka-Gaula, Mahlathi)
- Ward 20
- Ward 21 (Ka-Ngove)
- Ward 22 (Xawela)
- Ward 23
- Ward 24 (Ka-Rhangani, Loloka)
- Ward 25 (Ka-Dzumeri)
- Ward 26 (Bambeni, Ka-Sikhunyane)
- Ward 27
- Ward 28 (Ka-Mpakani)
- Ward 29 (Bateleur Bushveld Camp, Shingwedzi Rest Camp)
- Ward 30 (Ka-Mapuva)
- Ward 31 (Ka-Mapayeni, Vuhehli)
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.