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Fire in Makhuduthamaga
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 521 fire detections seen from space; 54 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2025, 618.
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
- 521Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 54 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 1 fire detection |
| December 2025 | 0 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| March 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 14 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 165 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 175 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 35 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 130 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 | 54 ha burnt (0.026% 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 | 130 | 98 | 144 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 35 | 29 | 58 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 175 | 164 | 214 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 165 | 153 | 230 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 14 | 13 | 17 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 54 ha | 0.026% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 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
- 2025618 fire detections, most in September 2025; 6,872 ha burnt
- 2024482 fire detections, most in August 2024; 6,993 ha burnt
- 2023392 fire detections, most in September 2023; 3,304 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 6,993 ha (3.3% of the place); 2025, 6,872 ha (3.3% of the place); 2023, 3,304 ha (1.6% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 520 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 618 | 6,872 ha | 3.3% |
| 2024 | 482 | 6,993 ha | 3.3% |
| 2023 | 392 | 3,304 ha | 1.6% |
| 2022 | 313 | 3,204 ha | 1.5% |
| 2021 | 255 | 2,787 ha | 1.3% |
| 2020 | 229 | 2,740 ha | 1.3% |
| 2019 | 143 | 1,542 ha | 0.73% |
| 2018 | 45 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 208 | · | · |
| 2016 | 74 | · | · |
| 2015 | 231 | · | · |
| 2014 | 271 | · | · |
| 2013 | 366 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 377 | · | · |
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
- Ward 2 (Ga-Mashifane, Lefakong)
- Ward 3 (Phatametsane, Phokwane)
- Ward 4 (Ngwaritsi, Takataka)
- Ward 5 (Maserumo, Mohlarekoma)
- Ward 6 (Lehlakong, Maganeng)
- Ward 7
- Ward 8
- Ward 9
- Ward 10 (Ga-Moripane)
- Ward 11
- Ward 12
- Ward 13
- Ward 14 (Ga-Magoshoa, Ga-Mohlala)
- Ward 15 (Ga-Maila, Madibaneng)
- Ward 16 (Ga-Makola, Ga-Mantshelane)
- Ward 17 (Manganeng, Mashite)
- Ward 18 (Mashadi)
- Ward 19 (Madibong, Sekhutlong)
- Ward 20 (Magukubu, Mahlole)
- Ward 21 (Difapye, Ga-Tisana)
- Ward 22 (Ga-Matlala, Mapoteng)
- Ward 23 (Ga-Maila, Marolo)
- Ward 24 (Ga-Mashelane, Makadikwe)
- Ward 25 (Ga-Matshatsha, Ga-Mokalapa)
- Ward 26 (Deugdvlei, Ga-Marishane)
- Ward 27 (Ga-Masemola, Molebedi Village)
- Ward 28 (Taswaing, Thabampshe)
- Ward 29 (Mahlolaneng, Malope)
- Ward 30
- Ward 31 (Ga-Mampana, Ga-Manyanyane)
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.