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Fire in Joe Gqabi
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 3,320 fire detections seen from space; 662 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2024, 7,170.
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
- 3,320Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 662 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 78 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 16 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 48 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 18 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 24 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 20 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 34 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 162 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 672 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 1,402 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 615 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 231 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 51 ha burnt (0.002% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 101 ha burnt (0.004% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 98 ha burnt (0.004% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 53 ha burnt (0.002% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 32 ha burnt (0.001% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 327 ha burnt (0.013% 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 | 231 | 221 | 200 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 615 | 605 | 696 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 1,402 | 1,374 | 1,686 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 672 | 660 | 671 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 162 | 154 | 148 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 34 | 31 | 49 | 327 ha | 0.013% | 99% |
| April 2026 | 20 | 18 | 20 | 32 ha | 0.001% | 99% |
| March 2026 | 24 | 22 | 34 | 53 ha | 0.002% | 99% |
| February 2026 | 18 | 17 | 21 | 98 ha | 0.004% | 99% |
| January 2026 | 48 | 41 | 52 | 101 ha | 0.004% | 99% |
| December 2025 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| November 2025 | 78 | 64 | 94 | 51 ha | 0.002% | 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
- 20247,170 fire detections, most in August 2024; 143,374 ha burnt
- 20235,641 fire detections, most in August 2023; 100,911 ha burnt
- 20215,492 fire detections, most in September 2021; 125,402 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 143,374 ha (5.6% of the place); 2021, 125,402 ha (4.9% of the place); 2023, 100,911 ha (3.9% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 3,226 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 3,992 | 71,229 ha | 2.8% |
| 2024 | 7,170 | 143,374 ha | 5.6% |
| 2023 | 5,641 | 100,911 ha | 3.9% |
| 2022 | 3,976 | 73,765 ha | 2.9% |
| 2021 | 5,492 | 125,402 ha | 4.9% |
| 2020 | 3,275 | 67,082 ha | 2.6% |
| 2019 | 2,635 | 56,951 ha | 2.2% |
| 2018 | 2,659 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 4,092 | · | · |
| 2016 | 2,214 | · | · |
| 2015 | 5,030 | · | · |
| 2014 | 4,074 | · | · |
| 2013 | 4,932 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 4,158 | · | · |
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.
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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.