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Fire in Ingquza Hill
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 1,718 fire detections seen from space; 5,996 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2019, 2,260.
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
- 1,718Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 5,996 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 31 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 20 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 58 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 13 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 34 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 60 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 354 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 444 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 488 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 175 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 26 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 15 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 43 ha burnt (0.017% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 48 ha burnt (0.019% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 154 ha burnt (0.062% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 26 ha burnt (0.011% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 150 ha burnt (0.060% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 1,097 ha burnt (0.44% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 4,478 ha burnt (1.8% 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 | 15 | 14 | 18 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 26 | 25 | 20 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 175 | 172 | 195 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 488 | 477 | 634 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 444 | 440 | 407 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 354 | 341 | 338 | 4,478 ha | 1.8% | 99% |
| April 2026 | 60 | 58 | 97 | 1,097 ha | 0.44% | 99% |
| March 2026 | 34 | 33 | 39 | 150 ha | 0.060% | 99% |
| February 2026 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 26 ha | 0.011% | 99% |
| January 2026 | 58 | 46 | 75 | 154 ha | 0.062% | 99% |
| December 2025 | 20 | 19 | 27 | 48 ha | 0.019% | 99% |
| November 2025 | 31 | 30 | 23 | 43 ha | 0.017% | 99% |
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
- 20192,260 fire detections, most in July 2019; 22,172 ha burnt
- 20242,208 fire detections, most in August 2024; 26,959 ha burnt
- 20132,195 fire detections, most in August 2013
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 26,959 ha (10.9% of the place); 2020, 23,258 ha (9.4% of the place); 2019, 22,172 ha (9.0% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 1,667 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 1,464 | 14,314 ha | 5.8% |
| 2024 | 2,208 | 26,959 ha | 10.9% |
| 2023 | 1,684 | 16,452 ha | 6.6% |
| 2022 | 1,958 | 16,997 ha | 6.9% |
| 2021 | 1,578 | 15,200 ha | 6.1% |
| 2020 | 1,905 | 23,258 ha | 9.4% |
| 2019 | 2,260 | 22,172 ha | 9.0% |
| 2018 | 1,612 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 1,309 | · | · |
| 2016 | 1,271 | · | · |
| 2015 | 1,272 | · | · |
| 2014 | 1,741 | · | · |
| 2013 | 2,195 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 1,510 | · | · |
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
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- Ward 23 (Mbotyi, Ndindindi)
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- Ward 27 (Holy Cross Mission)
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Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for Ingquza Hill, 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.