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Fire in Lejweleputswa
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 853 fire detections seen from space; 868 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2023, 3,135.
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
- 853Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 868 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 59 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 48 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 93 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 46 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 45 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 9 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 20 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 55 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 159 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 88 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 56 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 175 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 13 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 6.2 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 34 ha burnt (0.001% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 40 ha burnt (0.001% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 41 ha burnt (0.001% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 582 ha burnt (0.018% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 152 ha burnt (0.005% 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 | 175 | 141 | 123 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 56 | 54 | 50 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 88 | 87 | 130 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 159 | 154 | 213 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 55 | 53 | 61 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 20 | 20 | 25 | 152 ha | 0.005% | 99% |
| April 2026 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 582 ha | 0.018% | 99% |
| March 2026 | 45 | 44 | 42 | 41 ha | 0.001% | 99% |
| February 2026 | 46 | 39 | 77 | 40 ha | 0.001% | 99% |
| January 2026 | 93 | 71 | 83 | 34 ha | 0.001% | 99% |
| December 2025 | 48 | 44 | 32 | 6.2 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| November 2025 | 59 | 43 | 23 | 13 ha | 0.000% | 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
- 20233,135 fire detections, most in September 2023; 106,499 ha burnt
- 20212,747 fire detections, most in September 2021; 72,205 ha burnt
- 20221,989 fire detections, most in September 2022; 30,681 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2023, 106,499 ha (3.3% of the place); 2021, 72,205 ha (2.2% of the place); 2020, 43,373 ha (1.3% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 746 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 642 | 3,345 ha | 0.10% |
| 2024 | 917 | 11,714 ha | 0.36% |
| 2023 | 3,135 | 106,499 ha | 3.3% |
| 2022 | 1,989 | 30,681 ha | 0.95% |
| 2021 | 2,747 | 72,205 ha | 2.2% |
| 2020 | 1,208 | 43,373 ha | 1.3% |
| 2019 | 542 | 6,573 ha | 0.20% |
| 2018 | 969 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 1,220 | · | · |
| 2016 | 203 | · | · |
| 2015 | 705 | · | · |
| 2014 | 867 | · | · |
| 2013 | 427 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 847 | · | · |
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.
Everything we hold for Lejweleputswa, 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.