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Fire in Impendle
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 1,122 fire detections seen from space; 39 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2013, 1,709.
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
- 1,122Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 39 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 17 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 7 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 11 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 3 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 13 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 11 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 23 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 294 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 223 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 359 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 116 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 45 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 | 8.9 ha burnt (0.006% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 1.8 ha burnt (0.001% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 23 ha burnt (0.014% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 5.3 ha burnt (0.003% 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 | 45 | 43 | 38 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 116 | 104 | 109 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 359 | 351 | 461 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 223 | 220 | 286 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 294 | 291 | 255 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 5.3 ha | 0.003% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 23 ha | 0.014% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1.8 ha | 0.001% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 8.9 ha | 0.006% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 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
- 20131,709 fire detections, most in June 2013
- 20191,604 fire detections, most in July 2019; 35,838 ha burnt
- 20201,368 fire detections, most in July 2020; 36,186 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 38,869 ha (24.1% of the place); 2020, 36,186 ha (22.5% of the place); 2019, 35,838 ha (22.3% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 1,098 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 628 | 14,610 ha | 9.1% |
| 2024 | 1,291 | 38,869 ha | 24.1% |
| 2023 | 960 | 26,909 ha | 16.7% |
| 2022 | 1,123 | 33,988 ha | 21.1% |
| 2021 | 1,233 | 25,941 ha | 16.1% |
| 2020 | 1,368 | 36,186 ha | 22.5% |
| 2019 | 1,604 | 35,838 ha | 22.3% |
| 2018 | 1,136 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 1,041 | · | · |
| 2016 | 978 | · | · |
| 2015 | 954 | · | · |
| 2014 | 947 | · | · |
| 2013 | 1,709 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 1,159 | · | · |
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.