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Fire in Pixley ka Seme
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 804 fire detections seen from space; 4,249 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2022, 1,810.
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
- 4,249 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 63 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 55 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 98 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 8 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 13 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 9 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 37 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 170 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 113 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 33 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| October 2026 | 204 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 655 ha burnt (0.006% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 3,209 ha burnt (0.031% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 28 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 | 27 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 330 ha burnt (0.003% 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 | 204 | 126 | 23 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 1 | 1 | 2 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 33 | 32 | 30 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 113 | 105 | 169 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 170 | 162 | 150 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 37 | 36 | 31 | 330 ha | 0.003% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 27 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 13 | 12 | 18 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 98 | 51 | 67 | 28 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 55 | 42 | 81 | 3,209 ha | 0.031% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 63 | 45 | 79 | 655 ha | 0.006% | 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
- 20221,810 fire detections, most in October 2022; 25,413 ha burnt
- 20211,206 fire detections, most in September 2021; 33,153 ha burnt
- 20231,175 fire detections, most in December 2023; 23,773 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2021, 33,153 ha (0.32% of the place); 2022, 25,413 ha (0.25% of the place); 2023, 23,773 ha (0.23% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 686 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 796 | 12,508 ha | 0.12% |
| 2024 | 745 | 19,723 ha | 0.19% |
| 2023 | 1,175 | 23,773 ha | 0.23% |
| 2022 | 1,810 | 25,413 ha | 0.25% |
| 2021 | 1,206 | 33,153 ha | 0.32% |
| 2020 | 658 | 15,392 ha | 0.15% |
| 2019 | 476 | 11,077 ha | 0.11% |
| 2018 | 603 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 1,070 | · | · |
| 2016 | 898 | · | · |
| 2015 | 495 | · | · |
| 2014 | 783 | · | · |
| 2013 | 823 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 616 | · | · |
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.
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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.