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Fire in Moretele
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 430 fire detections seen from space; 37 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2023, 737.
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
- 430Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 37 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 | 8 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 29 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 193 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 85 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 78 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 29 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 | 23 ha burnt (0.016% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 14 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 | 29 | 21 | 42 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 78 | 73 | 100 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 85 | 69 | 103 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 193 | 175 | 306 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 29 | 29 | 30 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 14 ha | 0.010% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 23 ha | 0.016% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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
- 2023737 fire detections, most in August 2023; 10,300 ha burnt
- 2022609 fire detections, most in September 2022; 9,183 ha burnt
- 2021427 fire detections, most in September 2021; 3,837 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2023, 10,300 ha (7.2% of the place); 2022, 9,183 ha (6.4% of the place); 2021, 3,837 ha (2.7% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 430 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 349 | 3,808 ha | 2.7% |
| 2024 | 294 | 3,383 ha | 2.4% |
| 2023 | 737 | 10,300 ha | 7.2% |
| 2022 | 609 | 9,183 ha | 6.4% |
| 2021 | 427 | 3,837 ha | 2.7% |
| 2020 | 169 | 2,024 ha | 1.4% |
| 2019 | 137 | 1,824 ha | 1.3% |
| 2018 | 192 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 179 | · | · |
| 2016 | 16 | · | · |
| 2015 | 64 | · | · |
| 2014 | 112 | · | · |
| 2013 | 81 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 280 | · | · |
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 (Tlhowe, Little)
- Ward 2
- Ward 3
- Ward 4 (Lebotlwane, Mnukubyane)
- Ward 5 (Moretele, Lekgolo)
- Ward 6
- Ward 7 (Rabosula)
- Ward 8
- Ward 9
- Ward 10 (Motsheko, Dikebu)
- Ward 11 (Mogogelo)
- Ward 12
- Ward 13
- Ward 14 (Greenside)
- Ward 15 (Bosplaas)
- Ward 16 (Dihibidung, Maubane)
- Ward 17
- Ward 18
- Ward 19
- Ward 20 (Kgomo-Kgomo, Makapaanstad)
- Ward 21 (Danhouse, Dertig)
- Ward 22 (Kromkuil)
- Ward 23 (Mathibestad, Swartbooistad)
- Ward 24
- Ward 25
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.