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Fire in Umvoti
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 1,045 fire detections seen from space; 693 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2013, 1,449.
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
- 1,045Fire 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 | 62 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 39 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 54 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 60 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 11 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 30 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 157 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 173 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 217 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 141 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 65 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 36 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 12 ha burnt (0.005% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 8.0 ha burnt (0.003% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 56 ha burnt (0.021% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 68 ha burnt (0.025% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 73 ha burnt (0.027% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 52 ha burnt (0.019% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 424 ha burnt (0.16% 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 | 36 | 30 | 29 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 65 | 59 | 59 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 141 | 136 | 146 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 217 | 206 | 268 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 173 | 171 | 163 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 157 | 150 | 171 | 424 ha | 0.16% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 30 | 28 | 32 | 52 ha | 0.019% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 11 | 10 | 27 | 73 ha | 0.027% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 60 | 53 | 69 | 68 ha | 0.025% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 54 | 44 | 66 | 56 ha | 0.021% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 39 | 34 | 50 | 8.0 ha | 0.003% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 62 | 56 | 119 | 12 ha | 0.005% | 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
- 20131,449 fire detections, most in July 2013
- 20191,384 fire detections, most in July 2019; 8,183 ha burnt
- 20211,362 fire detections, most in July 2021; 8,301 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 11,331 ha (4.2% of the place); 2021, 8,301 ha (3.1% of the place); 2019, 8,183 ha (3.0% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 944 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 911 | 4,450 ha | 1.7% |
| 2024 | 1,280 | 11,331 ha | 4.2% |
| 2023 | 1,257 | 7,507 ha | 2.8% |
| 2022 | 1,126 | 5,829 ha | 2.2% |
| 2021 | 1,362 | 8,301 ha | 3.1% |
| 2020 | 1,252 | 6,090 ha | 2.3% |
| 2019 | 1,384 | 8,183 ha | 3.0% |
| 2018 | 1,045 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 1,007 | · | · |
| 2016 | 915 | · | · |
| 2015 | 877 | · | · |
| 2014 | 1,331 | · | · |
| 2013 | 1,449 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 1,314 | · | · |
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 (Eshane)
- Ward 5 (Kranskop, Hermannsburg)
- Ward 6
- Ward 7 (Greytown)
- Ward 8 (Muden)
- Ward 9 (Greytown)
- Ward 10 (Greytown, Sevenoaks)
- Ward 11
- Ward 12
- Ward 13 (Matimatolo)
- Ward 14
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.