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Fire in Lepele-Nkumpi
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 1,321 fire detections seen from space; 82 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2024, 1,815.
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
- 1,321Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 82 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 11 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 0 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 3 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 10 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| May 2026 | 7 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 104 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 346 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 286 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 191 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 358 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 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 1.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 14 ha burnt (0.004% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 67 ha burnt (0.019% 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 | 358 | 316 | 321 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 191 | 178 | 176 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 286 | 270 | 365 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 346 | 334 | 401 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 104 | 101 | 98 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 67 ha | 0.019% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 14 ha | 0.004% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 10 | 8 | 15 | 1.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 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
- 20241,815 fire detections, most in July 2024; 24,756 ha burnt
- 20231,710 fire detections, most in September 2023; 22,252 ha burnt
- 20221,613 fire detections, most in September 2022; 19,175 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 24,756 ha (7.2% of the place); 2021, 22,497 ha (6.5% of the place); 2023, 22,252 ha (6.4% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 1,310 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 1,165 | 13,862 ha | 4.0% |
| 2024 | 1,815 | 24,756 ha | 7.2% |
| 2023 | 1,710 | 22,252 ha | 6.4% |
| 2022 | 1,613 | 19,175 ha | 5.6% |
| 2021 | 1,483 | 22,497 ha | 6.5% |
| 2020 | 823 | 11,016 ha | 3.2% |
| 2019 | 926 | 12,106 ha | 3.5% |
| 2018 | 1,448 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 1,088 | · | · |
| 2016 | 651 | · | · |
| 2015 | 989 | · | · |
| 2014 | 1,403 | · | · |
| 2013 | 1,202 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 1,403 | · | · |
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 (Byldrift, Thabaneng)
- Ward 2
- Ward 3
- Ward 4
- Ward 5 (Motserereng)
- Ward 6 (Ga-Ntamaties)
- Ward 7 (Turfpan)
- Ward 8
- Ward 9 (Zebediela)
- Ward 10
- Ward 11
- Ward 12
- Ward 13
- Ward 14
- Ward 15 (Lebowakgomo)
- Ward 16
- Ward 17 (Lebowakgomo)
- Ward 18 (Lebowakgomo)
- Ward 19
- Ward 20 (Boschplaats, Lenting)
- Ward 21 (Dithabaneng, Makurung)
- Ward 22 (Lekhuswaneng)
- Ward 23
- Ward 24 (Mphahlele)
- Ward 25 (Lesetsi, Phosiri)
- Ward 26
- Ward 27 (Mahlaokeng)
- Ward 28 (Fertilis, Setaseng)
- Ward 29 (Kappa, Mafefe)
- Ward 30 (Magwaneng, Mosetamong)
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for Lepele-Nkumpi, 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.