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Fire in Ramotshere Moiloa
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 579 fire detections seen from space; 120 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2023, 2,395.
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
- 579Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 120 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 4 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 2 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 9 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 30 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 66 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 259 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 117 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 53 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 35 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 | 89 ha burnt (0.012% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 31 ha burnt (0.004% 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 | 35 | 30 | 29 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 53 | 48 | 49 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 117 | 111 | 185 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 259 | 253 | 366 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 66 | 64 | 69 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 31 ha | 0.004% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 30 | 23 | 20 | 89 ha | 0.012% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 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
- 20232,395 fire detections, most in September 2023; 42,041 ha burnt
- 20211,405 fire detections, most in September 2021; 24,292 ha burnt
- 20221,280 fire detections, most in September 2022; 20,514 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2023, 42,041 ha (5.7% of the place); 2021, 24,292 ha (3.3% of the place); 2022, 20,514 ha (2.8% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 573 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 252 | 3,236 ha | 0.44% |
| 2024 | 438 | 6,923 ha | 0.95% |
| 2023 | 2,395 | 42,041 ha | 5.7% |
| 2022 | 1,280 | 20,514 ha | 2.8% |
| 2021 | 1,405 | 24,292 ha | 3.3% |
| 2020 | 533 | 9,677 ha | 1.3% |
| 2019 | 244 | 2,209 ha | 0.30% |
| 2018 | 865 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 235 | · | · |
| 2016 | 94 | · | · |
| 2015 | 528 | · | · |
| 2014 | 174 | · | · |
| 2013 | 468 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 685 | · | · |
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 (Kwa-Ntsweng, Lekgophung)
- Ward 2
- Ward 3 (Dreifontein, Rietpan)
- Ward 4 (Goo-Nonyane, Rataele)
- Ward 5 (Goo-Nkwe, Gopane)
- Ward 6 (Ditshoka, Ga-Seane)
- Ward 7 (Leeufontein)
- Ward 8 (Lekubu, Braklaagte)
- Ward 9
- Ward 10 (Boswelakgomo, Goo-Moiloanyana)
- Ward 11 (Dinokana, Ga-Seane)
- Ward 12 (Ikageleng, Mahibitswane)
- Ward 13 (Ntsweletsoku)
- Ward 14 (Khunotswane, Matlhase)
- Ward 15 (Zeerust)
- Ward 16 (Zeerust)
- Ward 17 (Pachsdraai, Nietverdiend)
- Ward 18 (Lehurutshe)
- Ward 19 (Groot-Marico)
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for Ramotshere Moiloa, 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.