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Fire in Overberg
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 4,129 fire detections seen from space; 46,739 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2025, 3,241.
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
- 4,129Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 46,739 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 1,008 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 388 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 2,265 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 84 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 79 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 75 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 21 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 30 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 18 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 40 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 93 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 28 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 10,268 ha burnt (0.84% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 5,545 ha burnt (0.45% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 27,379 ha burnt (2.2% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 829 ha burnt (0.068% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 2,007 ha burnt (0.16% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 704 ha burnt (0.058% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 6.8 ha burnt (0.001% 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 | 28 | 28 | 44 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 93 | 87 | 68 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 40 | 39 | 37 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 18 | 17 | 39 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 30 | 30 | 39 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 21 | 21 | 24 | 6.8 ha | 0.001% | 99% |
| April 2026 | 75 | 73 | 91 | 704 ha | 0.058% | 99% |
| March 2026 | 79 | 64 | 73 | 2,007 ha | 0.16% | 99% |
| February 2026 | 84 | 79 | 93 | 829 ha | 0.068% | 99% |
| January 2026 | 2,265 | 2,057 | 2,835 | 27,379 ha | 2.2% | 99% |
| December 2025 | 388 | 356 | 336 | 5,545 ha | 0.45% | 99% |
| November 2025 | 1,008 | 922 | 915 | 10,268 ha | 0.84% | 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
- 20253,241 fire detections, most in November 2025; 27,840 ha burnt
- 20192,775 fire detections, most in January 2019; 30,262 ha burnt
- 20172,726 fire detections, most in February 2017
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2019, 30,262 ha (2.5% of the place); 2025, 27,840 ha (2.3% of the place); 2024, 19,873 ha (1.6% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 2,733 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 3,241 | 27,840 ha | 2.3% |
| 2024 | 2,086 | 19,873 ha | 1.6% |
| 2023 | 486 | 1,660 ha | 0.13% |
| 2022 | 1,918 | 17,655 ha | 1.4% |
| 2021 | 1,218 | 9,014 ha | 0.74% |
| 2020 | 352 | 703 ha | 0.057% |
| 2019 | 2,775 | 30,262 ha | 2.5% |
| 2018 | 1,320 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 2,726 | · | · |
| 2016 | 2,009 | · | · |
| 2015 | 2,072 | · | · |
| 2014 | 1,089 | · | · |
| 2013 | 829 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 1,043 | · | · |
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.
Everything we hold for Overberg, 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.