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Fire in Mandeni
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 145 fire detections seen from space; 219 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2014, 505.
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
- 145Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 219 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 | 1 fire detection |
| February 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 5 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 3 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 20 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 23 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 44 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 31 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 5 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 8 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 | 156 ha burnt (0.28% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 63 ha burnt (0.11% 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 | 8 | 8 | 4 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 5 | 5 | 5 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 31 | 29 | 33 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 44 | 41 | 56 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 23 | 21 | 23 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 63 ha | 0.11% | 98% |
| April 2026 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 156 ha | 0.28% | 98% |
| March 2026 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 98% |
| February 2026 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 98% |
| January 2026 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 98% |
| December 2025 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 98% |
| November 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 98% |
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
- 2014505 fire detections, most in August 2014
- 2013468 fire detections, most in August 2013
- 2012355 fire detections, most in August 2012
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 1,896 ha (3.4% of the place); 2019, 982 ha (1.8% of the place); 2020, 541 ha (0.98% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 144 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 117 | 379 ha | 0.68% |
| 2024 | 182 | 1,896 ha | 3.4% |
| 2023 | 127 | 516 ha | 0.93% |
| 2022 | 130 | 240 ha | 0.43% |
| 2021 | 165 | 379 ha | 0.68% |
| 2020 | 189 | 541 ha | 0.98% |
| 2019 | 323 | 982 ha | 1.8% |
| 2018 | 100 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 132 | · | · |
| 2016 | 152 | · | · |
| 2015 | 75 | · | · |
| 2014 | 505 | · | · |
| 2013 | 468 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 355 | · | · |
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 (Tugela Mouth)
- Ward 3 (Mandini, Tugela)
- Ward 4
- Ward 5
- Ward 6
- Ward 7 (Sundumbili)
- Ward 8
- Ward 9
- Ward 10
- Ward 11
- Ward 12
- Ward 13 (Sundumbili)
- Ward 14 (Sundumbili)
- Ward 15 (Sundumbili)
- Ward 16 (eNyoni)
- Ward 17
- Ward 18
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for Mandeni, 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.