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Fire in Ndwedwe
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 330 fire detections seen from space; 6.7 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2014, 667.
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
- 330Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 6.7 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 | 1 fire detection |
| February 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 19 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 35 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 101 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 99 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 62 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 11 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 | 6.7 ha burnt (0.007% 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 | 11 | 11 | 5 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 62 | 49 | 51 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 99 | 99 | 72 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 101 | 94 | 91 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 35 | 33 | 43 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 6.7 ha | 0.007% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 1 | 1 | 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
- 2014667 fire detections, most in June 2014
- 2020622 fire detections, most in August 2020; 1,692 ha burnt
- 2019516 fire detections, most in July 2019; 2,156 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 5,640 ha (5.8% of the place); 2021, 2,876 ha (3.0% of the place); 2019, 2,156 ha (2.2% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 330 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 246 | 772 ha | 0.79% |
| 2024 | 412 | 5,640 ha | 5.8% |
| 2023 | 234 | 843 ha | 0.87% |
| 2022 | 229 | 452 ha | 0.47% |
| 2021 | 515 | 2,876 ha | 3.0% |
| 2020 | 622 | 1,692 ha | 1.7% |
| 2019 | 516 | 2,156 ha | 2.2% |
| 2018 | 209 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 490 | · | · |
| 2016 | 263 | · | · |
| 2015 | 226 | · | · |
| 2014 | 667 | · | · |
| 2013 | 364 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 474 | · | · |
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 (Ndwedwe)
- Ward 2
- Ward 3
- Ward 4
- Ward 5
- Ward 6
- Ward 7
- Ward 8
- Ward 9
- Ward 10
- Ward 11
- Ward 12
- Ward 13
- Ward 14
- Ward 15
- Ward 16
- Ward 17
- Ward 18
- Ward 19
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for Ndwedwe, 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.