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Fire in Langeberg
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 858 fire detections seen from space; 10,741 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2017, 1,645.
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
- 858Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 10,741 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 234 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 5 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 176 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 332 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 57 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 37 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 7 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 2,027 ha burnt (0.45% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 3,696 ha burnt (0.82% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 3,712 ha burnt (0.82% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 423 ha burnt (0.094% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 803 ha burnt (0.18% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 80 ha burnt (0.018% 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 | 4 | 3 | 4 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 2 | 2 | 1 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 2 | 2 | 5 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 2 | 2 | 4 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 0 | 0 | 1 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 80 ha | 0.018% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 37 | 37 | 63 | 803 ha | 0.18% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 57 | 51 | 49 | 423 ha | 0.094% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 332 | 323 | 317 | 3,712 ha | 0.82% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 176 | 154 | 164 | 3,696 ha | 0.82% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 234 | 221 | 270 | 2,027 ha | 0.45% | 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
- 20171,645 fire detections, most in February 2017
- 2018504 fire detections, most in January 2018
- 2014440 fire detections, most in September 2014
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2019, 5,255 ha (1.2% of the place); 2025, 2,049 ha (0.45% of the place); 2022, 1,274 ha (0.28% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 619 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 289 | 2,049 ha | 0.45% |
| 2024 | 103 | 760 ha | 0.17% |
| 2023 | 84 | 15 ha | 0.003% |
| 2022 | 200 | 1,274 ha | 0.28% |
| 2021 | 105 | 598 ha | 0.13% |
| 2020 | 60 | 141 ha | 0.031% |
| 2019 | 281 | 5,255 ha | 1.2% |
| 2018 | 504 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 1,645 | · | · |
| 2016 | 190 | · | · |
| 2015 | 228 | · | · |
| 2014 | 440 | · | · |
| 2013 | 174 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 51 | · | · |
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 (Robertson)
- Ward 2 (Nkqubela)
- Ward 3 (Robertson)
- Ward 4 (Happy Valley)
- Ward 5 (McGregor, Duikerkloof)
- Ward 6 (Robertson)
- Ward 7 (Montagu, Badshoogte)
- Ward 8 (Bonnievale, Klein-Spykerhoek)
- Ward 9 (Ashton, Vrekhoek)
- Ward 10 (New Look)
- Ward 11 (Bougon Villas, La Rochelle Villas)
- Ward 12 (Ashbury, Koo)
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for Langeberg, 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.