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Fire in uMlalazi
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 771 fire detections seen from space; 693 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2014, 2,087.
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
- 771Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 693 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 12 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 5 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 18 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 55 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| April 2026 | 19 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 151 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 74 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 135 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 201 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 56 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 44 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 16 ha burnt (0.007% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 19 ha burnt (0.009% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 131 ha burnt (0.059% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 44 ha burnt (0.020% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 483 ha burnt (0.22% 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 | 44 | 37 | 29 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 56 | 49 | 69 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 201 | 193 | 201 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 135 | 127 | 191 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 74 | 71 | 85 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 151 | 145 | 145 | 483 ha | 0.22% | 99% |
| April 2026 | 19 | 18 | 23 | 44 ha | 0.020% | 99% |
| March 2026 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| February 2026 | 55 | 48 | 65 | 131 ha | 0.059% | 99% |
| January 2026 | 18 | 18 | 20 | 19 ha | 0.009% | 99% |
| December 2025 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 99% |
| November 2025 | 12 | 12 | 22 | 16 ha | 0.007% | 99% |
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
- 20142,087 fire detections, most in June 2014
- 20121,970 fire detections, most in August 2012
- 20191,692 fire detections, most in July 2019; 8,825 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 12,979 ha (5.9% of the place); 2019, 8,825 ha (4.0% of the place); 2021, 8,532 ha (3.9% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 754 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 597 | 2,520 ha | 1.1% |
| 2024 | 1,044 | 12,979 ha | 5.9% |
| 2023 | 762 | 3,389 ha | 1.5% |
| 2022 | 564 | 1,861 ha | 0.85% |
| 2021 | 1,552 | 8,532 ha | 3.9% |
| 2020 | 938 | 3,715 ha | 1.7% |
| 2019 | 1,692 | 8,825 ha | 4.0% |
| 2018 | 619 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 935 | · | · |
| 2016 | 482 | · | · |
| 2015 | 316 | · | · |
| 2014 | 2,087 | · | · |
| 2013 | 1,324 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 1,970 | · | · |
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
- Ward 6
- Ward 7 (Langalokukhanya, Mpushini Park)
- Ward 8 (eNtumeni)
- Ward 9
- Ward 10
- Ward 11 (Eshowe, Sunnydale)
- Ward 12 (Gezinsila)
- Ward 13
- Ward 14
- Ward 15
- Ward 16
- Ward 17
- Ward 18 (Amatikulu, Gingindlovu)
- Ward 19 (Mtunzini)
- Ward 20 (Obanjeni)
- Ward 21
- Ward 22
- Ward 23
- Ward 24 (KwaNcekwana, KwaNdlangubo)
- Ward 25 (Nomyaca)
- Ward 26 (KwaMaqwakazi)
- Ward 27
- Ward 28 (Eshowe, Mpushini Park)
Places in each ward: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Everything we hold for uMlalazi, 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.