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Fire in Thulamela
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 98 fire detections seen from space; 0.0 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2019, 619.
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
- 98Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 0.0 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 1 fire detection |
| December 2025 | 0 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 0 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| June 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 22 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 27 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 25 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 16 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 | 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 | 16 | 12 | 28 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 25 | 22 | 22 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 27 | 25 | 33 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 22 | 21 | 30 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 4 | 4 | 3 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 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
- 2019619 fire detections, most in September 2019; 1,677 ha burnt
- 2014544 fire detections, most in October 2014
- 2012494 fire detections, most in August 2012
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 2,065 ha (0.78% of the place); 2019, 1,677 ha (0.63% of the place); 2023, 1,168 ha (0.44% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 97 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 394 | 1,144 ha | 0.43% |
| 2024 | 489 | 2,065 ha | 0.78% |
| 2023 | 467 | 1,168 ha | 0.44% |
| 2022 | 211 | 371 ha | 0.14% |
| 2021 | 332 | 721 ha | 0.27% |
| 2020 | 123 | 186 ha | 0.071% |
| 2019 | 619 | 1,677 ha | 0.63% |
| 2018 | 392 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 175 | · | · |
| 2016 | 235 | · | · |
| 2015 | 176 | · | · |
| 2014 | 544 | · | · |
| 2013 | 217 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 494 | · | · |
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 (Dzamba, Gogogo)
- Ward 2
- Ward 3 (Tshandama)
- Ward 4 (Thengwe)
- Ward 5 (Lamvi)
- Ward 6 (Khavhambe, Makunya)
- Ward 7 (Begwa)
- Ward 8
- Ward 9 (Thsidzini)
- Ward 10 (Matangari)
- Ward 11 (Muhuyu)
- Ward 12 (Makonde)
- Ward 13
- Ward 14 (Vondwe)
- Ward 15 (Luheni, Mutshavhawe)
- Ward 16 (Munwe, Tshififi)
- Ward 17 (Mphego, Tshiulungoma)
- Ward 18 (Thusalashaka)
- Ward 19 (Budeli, Dumasi)
- Ward 20 (Mphego, Tshiulungoma)
- Ward 21 (Thohoyandou, Sibasa)
- Ward 22 (Thohoyandou)
- Ward 23 (Sibasa)
- Ward 24 (Dovhoni, Ngwenani)
- Ward 25
- Ward 26
- Ward 27
- Ward 28 (Siloam)
- Ward 29 (Tshilapfene)
- Ward 30 (Mianzwi, Mutshenzheni)
- Ward 31 (Gondeni, Mukumbani)
- Ward 32
- Ward 33
- Ward 34 (Mapate)
- Ward 35 (Makumbane)
- Ward 36 (Thusalashaka)
- Ward 37
- Ward 38 (Madzingandevhe)
- Ward 39 (Malavuwe, Mangondi)
- Ward 40 (Ngovhela)
- Ward 41 (Tshiulungoma, Thohoyandou)
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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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.