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Fire in Mogale City
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 382 fire detections seen from space; 781 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2013, 867.
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
- 382Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 781 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 0 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 0 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| April 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 56 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 62 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 138 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 74 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 33 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 16 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 | 781 ha burnt (0.58% 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 | 16 | 16 | 14 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 33 | 30 | 32 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 74 | 69 | 73 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 138 | 131 | 247 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 62 | 62 | 64 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 56 | 53 | 54 | 781 ha | 0.58% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 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 | 0 | 0 | 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
- 2013867 fire detections, most in July 2013
- 2018765 fire detections, most in August 2018
- 2023735 fire detections, most in August 2023; 7,645 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2021, 8,530 ha (6.3% of the place); 2024, 8,449 ha (6.3% of the place); 2023, 7,645 ha (5.7% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 382 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 433 | 4,462 ha | 3.3% |
| 2024 | 595 | 8,449 ha | 6.3% |
| 2023 | 735 | 7,645 ha | 5.7% |
| 2022 | 574 | 7,585 ha | 5.6% |
| 2021 | 623 | 8,530 ha | 6.3% |
| 2020 | 676 | 6,511 ha | 4.8% |
| 2019 | 547 | 6,754 ha | 5.0% |
| 2018 | 765 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 688 | · | · |
| 2016 | 288 | · | · |
| 2015 | 499 | · | · |
| 2014 | 650 | · | · |
| 2013 | 867 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 707 | · | · |
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 (Rietvallei)
- Ward 2 (Rietvallei)
- Ward 3 (Azaadville)
- Ward 4 (Kagiso, Leratong Village)
- Ward 5 (Tshepisong)
- Ward 6 (Kagiso, Robin Park)
- Ward 7 (Kagiso, Leratong Village)
- Ward 8 (Kagiso, Leratong Village)
- Ward 9 (Witpoortjie, Kagiso)
- Ward 10 (Kagiso)
- Ward 11 (Kagiso)
- Ward 12 (Kagiso)
- Ward 13 (Kagiso)
- Ward 14 (Kagiso)
- Ward 15 (Kagiso, Lewisham)
- Ward 16 (Lewisham, Mindalore)
- Ward 17 (Dan Pienaarville, Krugersdorp-Noord)
- Ward 18 (Mindalore North, Rangeview)
- Ward 19 (Kagiso)
- Ward 20 (Krugersdorp, Olivanna)
- Ward 21 (Kenmare)
- Ward 22 (Noordheuwel)
- Ward 23 (Muldersdrift)
- Ward 24 (Munsieville)
- Ward 25 (Munsieville)
- Ward 26 (Boltonia, Eleadah)
- Ward 27 (Munsieville)
- Ward 28
- Ward 29 (Rant-en-Dal)
- Ward 30
- Ward 31 (Magaliesburg, Mogale City)
- Ward 32 (New Thorndale, Hekpoort)
- Ward 33 (Lammermoor, Riverside Township)
- Ward 34 (Rietvallei)
- Ward 35 (Rietvallei)
- Ward 36 (Kagiso)
- Ward 37 (Monument, Wentworth Park)
- Ward 38 (Apple Park, Burgershoop)
- Ward 39 (Muldersdrift, Munsieville)
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.