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Fire in Local Municipality of Madibeng
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 1,939 fire detections seen from space; 513 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2021, 2,400.
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
- 1,939Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 513 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 13 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 36 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 5 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 24 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 10 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 20 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 59 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 130 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 825 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 399 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 228 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 190 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 | 13 ha burnt (0.004% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 33 ha burnt (0.009% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 467 ha burnt (0.12% 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 | 190 | 157 | 191 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 228 | 205 | 188 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 399 | 365 | 452 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 825 | 779 | 1,240 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 130 | 125 | 138 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 59 | 56 | 51 | 467 ha | 0.12% | 99% |
| April 2026 | 20 | 16 | 10 | 33 ha | 0.009% | 99% |
| March 2026 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| February 2026 | 24 | 20 | 16 | 13 ha | 0.004% | 99% |
| January 2026 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| December 2025 | 36 | 29 | 31 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| November 2025 | 13 | 10 | 16 | 0.0 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
- 20212,400 fire detections, most in July 2021; 24,992 ha burnt
- 20232,159 fire detections, most in August 2023; 31,228 ha burnt
- 20222,065 fire detections, most in September 2022; 29,387 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2023, 31,228 ha (8.2% of the place); 2022, 29,387 ha (7.8% of the place); 2021, 24,992 ha (6.6% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 1,890 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 997 | 9,659 ha | 2.6% |
| 2024 | 1,198 | 20,073 ha | 5.3% |
| 2023 | 2,159 | 31,228 ha | 8.2% |
| 2022 | 2,065 | 29,387 ha | 7.8% |
| 2021 | 2,400 | 24,992 ha | 6.6% |
| 2020 | 1,584 | 14,826 ha | 3.9% |
| 2019 | 1,078 | 13,299 ha | 3.5% |
| 2018 | 1,796 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 1,925 | · | · |
| 2016 | 345 | · | · |
| 2015 | 1,150 | · | · |
| 2014 | 1,319 | · | · |
| 2013 | 1,222 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 1,542 | · | · |
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 (Ga-Rasai, Ga-Tsogwe)
- Ward 2 (Jericho, Makgabetlwane)
- Ward 3 (Madidi)
- Ward 4 (Mboloko)
- Ward 5 (Mboloko)
- Ward 6
- Ward 7
- Ward 8 (Jakkalasdans, Maloka)
- Ward 9 (Letlhabile)
- Ward 10 (Kgabalatsane)
- Ward 11 (Letlhabile)
- Ward 12 (Letlhabile)
- Ward 13
- Ward 14 (Primindia, Letlhabile)
- Ward 15 (KwaMoseja)
- Ward 16
- Ward 17 (Mapetla)
- Ward 18 (Mapetla, Mmakau)
- Ward 19 (Mothutlung)
- Ward 20
- Ward 21 (Damonsville)
- Ward 22 (Oukasie)
- Ward 23 (Brits, Primindia)
- Ward 24 (SofaSonke)
- Ward 25 (Bapong)
- Ward 26 (Wonderkop)
- Ward 27 (Mooinooi)
- Ward 28
- Ward 29 (Broederstroom, Pelindaba)
- Ward 30 (Ifafi, Meerhof)
- Ward 31 (Modderspruit)
- Ward 32 (Segwaelane)
- Ward 33 (Kosmos, Melodie)
- Ward 34 (Moiletswane, Rietgat)
- Ward 35 (Oskraal, Rabokala)
- Ward 36 (Klipgat)
- Ward 37
- Ward 38 (Letlhabile)
- Ward 39 (Elandsrand)
- Ward 40 (Sonop)
- Ward 41 (Hebron)
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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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.