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Fire in Nyandeni
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 804 fire detections seen from space; 274 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2013, 1,416.
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
- 804Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 274 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 11 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 3 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 14 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 46 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 105 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 427 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 186 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| October 2026 | 3 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 3.0 ha burnt (0.001% 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 | 271 ha burnt (0.11% 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 | 1 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 1 | 1 | 7 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 186 | 184 | 162 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 427 | 415 | 499 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 105 | 103 | 125 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 46 | 46 | 40 | 271 ha | 0.11% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 14 | 14 | 17 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 3.0 ha | 0.001% | 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
- 20131,416 fire detections, most in August 2013
- 20231,394 fire detections, most in August 2023; 13,777 ha burnt
- 20241,258 fire detections, most in August 2024; 19,125 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 19,125 ha (7.7% of the place); 2023, 13,777 ha (5.6% of the place); 2020, 9,877 ha (4.0% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 790 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 567 | 6,006 ha | 2.4% |
| 2024 | 1,258 | 19,125 ha | 7.7% |
| 2023 | 1,394 | 13,777 ha | 5.6% |
| 2022 | 608 | 4,696 ha | 1.9% |
| 2021 | 686 | 7,853 ha | 3.2% |
| 2020 | 1,087 | 9,877 ha | 4.0% |
| 2019 | 839 | 8,692 ha | 3.5% |
| 2018 | 557 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 483 | · | · |
| 2016 | 519 | · | · |
| 2015 | 388 | · | · |
| 2014 | 812 | · | · |
| 2013 | 1,416 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 848 | · | · |
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
- Ward 2
- Ward 3
- Ward 4
- Ward 5
- Ward 6
- Ward 7 (Libode, Khohlombeni)
- Ward 8
- Ward 9
- Ward 10 (Lutoli)
- Ward 11 (Ngolo)
- Ward 12
- Ward 13
- Ward 14 (Mzamo)
- Ward 15
- Ward 16
- Ward 17 (Tonti)
- Ward 18
- Ward 19
- Ward 20
- Ward 21 (Ngqeleni, Bhantini)
- Ward 22
- Ward 23
- Ward 24
- Ward 25 (Presley's Bay)
- Ward 26 (Umtata Mouth)
- Ward 27
- Ward 28
- Ward 29
- Ward 30
- Ward 31
- Ward 32
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for Nyandeni, 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.