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Fire in Umdoni
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 196 fire detections seen from space; 477 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2020, 493.
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
- 196Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 477 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 3 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 3 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| February 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 6 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 7 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 32 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 37 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 70 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 19 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 7 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 9 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 | 113 ha burnt (0.12% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 364 ha burnt (0.37% 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 | 9 | 9 | 5 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 7 | 7 | 3 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 19 | 19 | 25 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 70 | 65 | 82 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 37 | 37 | 47 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 32 | 31 | 42 | 364 ha | 0.37% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 113 ha | 0.12% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 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
- 2020493 fire detections, most in August 2020; 2,797 ha burnt
- 2024421 fire detections, most in July 2024; 2,844 ha burnt
- 2014412 fire detections, most in July 2014
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 2,844 ha (2.9% of the place); 2020, 2,797 ha (2.8% of the place); 2019, 2,407 ha (2.5% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 190 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 186 | 790 ha | 0.80% |
| 2024 | 421 | 2,844 ha | 2.9% |
| 2023 | 179 | 421 ha | 0.43% |
| 2022 | 240 | 721 ha | 0.74% |
| 2021 | 199 | 975 ha | 0.99% |
| 2020 | 493 | 2,797 ha | 2.8% |
| 2019 | 374 | 2,407 ha | 2.5% |
| 2018 | 316 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 181 | · | · |
| 2016 | 126 | · | · |
| 2015 | 263 | · | · |
| 2014 | 412 | · | · |
| 2013 | 292 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 355 | · | · |
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
- Ward 2
- Ward 3
- Ward 4
- Ward 5 (Jolivet, Sawoti)
- Ward 6
- Ward 7 (Bazley Beach, Elysium)
- Ward 8
- Ward 9
- Ward 10 (Kelso, Park Rynie)
- Ward 11 (Umzinto, Esperanza)
- Ward 12 (Hazelwood, Umzinto)
- Ward 13 (Asoka, Hazelwood)
- Ward 14
- Ward 15 (Scottburgh, Freeland Park)
- Ward 16
- Ward 17
- Ward 18
- Ward 19
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for Umdoni, 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.