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Fire in City of Matlosana
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 295 fire detections seen from space; 68 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2023, 1,211.
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
- 295Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 68 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 7 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 1 fire detection |
| January 2026 | 7 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 7 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 13 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 47 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 116 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 55 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 20 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 20 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 | 30 ha burnt (0.008% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 38 ha burnt (0.010% 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 | 20 | 15 | 10 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 20 | 15 | 15 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 55 | 54 | 68 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 116 | 105 | 196 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 47 | 45 | 39 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 38 ha | 0.010% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 30 ha | 0.008% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 7 | 5 | 19 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 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
- 20231,211 fire detections, most in September 2023; 27,660 ha burnt
- 2020733 fire detections, most in June 2020; 12,885 ha burnt
- 2018682 fire detections, most in September 2018
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2023, 27,660 ha (7.7% of the place); 2021, 13,831 ha (3.8% of the place); 2020, 12,885 ha (3.6% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 287 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 276 | 6,049 ha | 1.7% |
| 2024 | 424 | 8,601 ha | 2.4% |
| 2023 | 1,211 | 27,660 ha | 7.7% |
| 2022 | 480 | 9,286 ha | 2.6% |
| 2021 | 633 | 13,831 ha | 3.8% |
| 2020 | 733 | 12,885 ha | 3.6% |
| 2019 | 179 | 1,631 ha | 0.45% |
| 2018 | 682 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 507 | · | · |
| 2016 | 74 | · | · |
| 2015 | 403 | · | · |
| 2014 | 545 | · | · |
| 2013 | 378 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 545 | · | · |
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 (Hartbeesfontein)
- Ward 2 (Tigane)
- Ward 3 (Alabama, Sakhrol)
- Ward 4 (Dominionville, Manzilpark)
- Ward 5 (Alabama, Jouberton)
- Ward 6 (Jouberton)
- Ward 7 (Jouberton)
- Ward 8 (Alabama, Jouberton)
- Ward 9 (Jouberton)
- Ward 10 (Jouberton)
- Ward 11 (Jouberton)
- Ward 12 (Jouberton)
- Ward 13 (Jouberton)
- Ward 14 (Jouberton)
- Ward 15 (Collerville, Davanna)
- Ward 16 (Flimieda, La Hoff)
- Ward 17 (Doringkruin, Flamwood)
- Ward 18 (Witkoppies Informal)
- Ward 19 (Klerksdorp, Campbell)
- Ward 20
- Ward 21 (Orkney, Vaal Reefs)
- Ward 22 (Uitkomsdal, Nooitgedacht)
- Ward 23 (Uitkomsdal)
- Ward 24
- Ward 25
- Ward 26 (Lourenspark)
- Ward 27
- Ward 28 (Lourenspark)
- Ward 29 (Boetrand, Dawkinsville)
- Ward 30 (Winnie Mandela infromal settelment)
- Ward 31 (Stilfontein)
- Ward 32 (Stilfontein, Hartebeesfontein)
- Ward 33 (Hartebeesfontein, Buffelsfontein)
- Ward 34 (Khuma)
- Ward 35 (Khuma)
- Ward 36 (Uitkomsdal)
- Ward 37 (Alabama, Jouberton)
- Ward 38 (Khuma)
- Ward 39 (Adamayview, Flamwood)
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.