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Fire in Mnquma
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 292 fire detections seen from space; 428 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2023, 1,656.
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
- 292Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 428 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 43 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 9 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 33 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| March 2026 | 7 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 14 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 35 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 46 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 62 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 38 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 51 ha burnt (0.017% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 8.0 ha burnt (0.003% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 20 ha burnt (0.007% 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 | 61 ha burnt (0.020% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 288 ha burnt (0.096% 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 | 4 | 4 | 2 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 0 | 0 | 4 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 38 | 36 | 48 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 62 | 62 | 62 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 46 | 46 | 64 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 35 | 35 | 48 | 288 ha | 0.096% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 61 ha | 0.020% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 33 | 29 | 32 | 20 ha | 0.007% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 8.0 ha | 0.003% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 43 | 41 | 30 | 51 ha | 0.017% | 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
- 20231,656 fire detections, most in August 2023; 13,224 ha burnt
- 20241,587 fire detections, most in August 2024; 15,468 ha burnt
- 20131,346 fire detections, most in September 2013
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 15,468 ha (5.2% of the place); 2023, 13,224 ha (4.4% of the place); 2021, 13,112 ha (4.4% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 240 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 480 | 3,286 ha | 1.1% |
| 2024 | 1,587 | 15,468 ha | 5.2% |
| 2023 | 1,656 | 13,224 ha | 4.4% |
| 2022 | 218 | 845 ha | 0.28% |
| 2021 | 1,239 | 13,112 ha | 4.4% |
| 2020 | 433 | 2,554 ha | 0.85% |
| 2019 | 281 | 769 ha | 0.26% |
| 2018 | 250 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 178 | · | · |
| 2016 | 349 | · | · |
| 2015 | 284 | · | · |
| 2014 | 557 | · | · |
| 2013 | 1,346 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 717 | · | · |
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 (Gcuwa (Butterworth))
- Ward 2 (Siyanda, eMatankini)
- Ward 3 (Msobomvu, Mchubakazi)
- Ward 4 (Cuba, Vully Valley)
- Ward 5 (Zizamele)
- Ward 6 (Upper Mchubakazi, uMzantsi)
- Ward 7 (Zazulwana, High Hill)
- Ward 8 (eSigadini, Mareledwane)
- Ward 9 (Bongoza, Chibini)
- Ward 10 (Langeni, uMzantsi)
- Ward 11 (Komkhulu, eZingxandoreni)
- Ward 12 (Mbendeni)
- Ward 13 (Cegcuwana, eKomanishini)
- Ward 14 (eGqubeni, Ngqakeni)
- Ward 15 (eLalini, Hom)
- Ward 16 (Bholani, eLalini)
- Ward 17 (Bangweni, Komkhulu)
- Ward 18 (Blythswood, Maxelegwini)
- Ward 19 (Mgcagcatela, Gubevu)
- Ward 20
- Ward 21 (Kotana)
- Ward 22 (KuJingqi)
- Ward 23 (Cingweni, Ganfana)
- Ward 24 (Lokishini, Msintsana)
- Ward 25
- Ward 26 (Bakaneni, Kodidi)
- Ward 27 (Cebe, Mazeppa Bay)
- Ward 28 (Kobonqaba, Wavecrest)
- Ward 29 (Qolora Mouth)
- Ward 30 (Centane, Kentani)
- Ward 31 (Luxeni)
- Ward 32 (KwaMdange)
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for Mnquma, 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.