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Fire in Ndlambe
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 101 fire detections seen from space; 551 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2021, 132.
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
- 101Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 551 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 9 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 19 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 50 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 3 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| May 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| June 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| October 2026 | 3 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 13 ha burnt (0.007% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 146 ha burnt (0.079% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 392 ha burnt (0.21% 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 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% 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 | 3 | 3 | 6 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 1 | 1 | 0 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 4 | 4 | 12 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 2 | 2 | 2 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 4 | 4 | 2 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| April 2026 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| March 2026 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| February 2026 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| January 2026 | 50 | 47 | 44 | 392 ha | 0.21% | 99% |
| December 2025 | 19 | 18 | 31 | 146 ha | 0.079% | 99% |
| November 2025 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 13 ha | 0.007% | 99% |
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
- 2021132 fire detections, most in July 2021; 448 ha burnt
- 2016125 fire detections, most in May 2016
- 2013118 fire detections, most in March 2013
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2021, 448 ha (0.24% of the place); 2025, 220 ha (0.12% of the place); 2023, 167 ha (0.090% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 73 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 107 | 220 ha | 0.12% |
| 2024 | 65 | 115 ha | 0.063% |
| 2023 | 65 | 167 ha | 0.090% |
| 2022 | 50 | 9.2 ha | 0.005% |
| 2021 | 132 | 448 ha | 0.24% |
| 2020 | 72 | 2.7 ha | 0.001% |
| 2019 | 78 | 19 ha | 0.011% |
| 2018 | 87 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 98 | · | · |
| 2016 | 125 | · | · |
| 2015 | 54 | · | · |
| 2014 | 107 | · | · |
| 2013 | 118 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 54 | · | · |
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 (Boknes, Cannon Rocks)
- Ward 2 (Alexandria)
- Ward 3 (Boesmansriviermond)
- Ward 4 (Kenton-on-Sea, Kasouga)
- Ward 5 (Bathurst)
- Ward 6 (East Bank, Fish River Mouth)
- Ward 7 (Nemato (Nelson Mandela Township))
- Ward 8 (Nemato (Nelson Mandela Township))
- Ward 9 (Nemato (Nelson Mandela Township))
- Ward 10 (Port Alfred, Royal Alfred Marina)
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for Ndlambe, 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.