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Fire in Tsantsabane
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 66 fire detections seen from space; 110 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2012, 1,450.
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
- 66Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 110 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 10 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 0 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 3 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 3 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 10 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 11 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 12 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| October 2026 | 6 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 110 ha burnt (0.006% 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 | 6 | 6 | 12 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 1 | 1 | 5 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 12 | 12 | 14 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 11 | 11 | 17 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 4 | 4 | 12 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 110 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
- 20121,450 fire detections, most in October 2012
- 20231,161 fire detections, most in September 2023; 37,728 ha burnt
- 2021652 fire detections, most in September 2021; 42,020 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2021, 42,020 ha (2.3% of the place); 2023, 37,728 ha (2.1% of the place); 2024, 3,315 ha (0.18% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 56 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 86 | 728 ha | 0.040% |
| 2024 | 241 | 3,315 ha | 0.18% |
| 2023 | 1,161 | 37,728 ha | 2.1% |
| 2022 | 118 | 654 ha | 0.035% |
| 2021 | 652 | 42,020 ha | 2.3% |
| 2020 | 52 | 109 ha | 0.006% |
| 2019 | 27 | 378 ha | 0.020% |
| 2018 | 348 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 67 | · | · |
| 2016 | 172 | · | · |
| 2015 | 111 | · | · |
| 2014 | 47 | · | · |
| 2013 | 315 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 1,450 | · | · |
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 (Wes-Einde, Metsimatala)
- Ward 2 (Newton)
- Ward 3 (Jenn-Heaven, Lohathla)
- Ward 4 (Boitshoko)
- Ward 5 (Postmasburg, Vergenoeg)
- Ward 6 (Beeshoek, Lohatlha)
- Ward 7 (Boitshoko)
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for Tsantsabane, 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.