Free tools · Seen from space
Fire in Makhado
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 555 fire detections seen from space; 0.0 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2014, 1,101.
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
- 555Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 0.0 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 3 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 9 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| February 2026 | 10 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 3 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 31 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 116 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 176 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 87 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 117 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 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% 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 | 117 | 107 | 144 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 87 | 77 | 109 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 176 | 168 | 189 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 116 | 113 | 181 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 31 | 30 | 17 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 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
- 20141,101 fire detections, most in August 2014
- 20231,100 fire detections, most in September 2023; 7,128 ha burnt
- 20121,015 fire detections, most in August 2012
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2023, 7,128 ha (0.94% of the place); 2025, 6,909 ha (0.91% of the place); 2024, 5,906 ha (0.78% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 543 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 945 | 6,909 ha | 0.91% |
| 2024 | 878 | 5,906 ha | 0.78% |
| 2023 | 1,100 | 7,128 ha | 0.94% |
| 2022 | 732 | 4,525 ha | 0.60% |
| 2021 | 621 | 3,926 ha | 0.52% |
| 2020 | 575 | 2,036 ha | 0.27% |
| 2019 | 873 | 3,796 ha | 0.50% |
| 2018 | 422 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 429 | · | · |
| 2016 | 310 | · | · |
| 2015 | 816 | · | · |
| 2014 | 1,101 | · | · |
| 2013 | 353 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 1,015 | · | · |
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 (Bokisi, Mbhokota Village)
- Ward 2 (Elim, Mabedengwa)
- Ward 3
- Ward 4
- Ward 5 (Riverplaats)
- Ward 6
- Ward 7 (Louis Trichardt)
- Ward 8 (Louis Trichardt)
- Ward 9 (Schoemansdal Evironmental Education Centre)
- Ward 10
- Ward 11
- Ward 12
- Ward 13 (Chavani)
- Ward 14 (Bungeni)
- Ward 15
- Ward 16
- Ward 17
- Ward 18
- Ward 19
- Ward 20 (Bandelierkop, Senwabarwana)
- Ward 21 (Luvhalani, Tshikuwi)
- Ward 22 (Ravele)
- Ward 23
- Ward 24 (Hamadodonga, Madabani)
- Ward 25 (Madaheni, Maebani)
- Ward 26 (Hamanavhela, Matitivhala)
- Ward 27
- Ward 28
- Ward 29
- Ward 30
- Ward 31 (Valdezia, Levubu)
- Ward 32
- Ward 33 (Dzanani)
- Ward 34
- Ward 35 (Matsa)
- Ward 36 (Manyii, Mabvuka Jazz)
- Ward 37
- Ward 38
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for Makhado, 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.