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Fire in Umzumbe
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 486 fire detections seen from space; 844 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2020, 1,141.
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
- 486Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 844 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 5 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 0 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 2 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 9 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 78 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 95 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 219 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 54 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 11 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 7 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 | 14 ha burnt (0.011% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 139 ha burnt (0.12% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 691 ha burnt (0.57% 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 | 7 | 7 | 8 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 11 | 8 | 8 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 54 | 53 | 53 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 219 | 206 | 300 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 95 | 92 | 123 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 78 | 72 | 81 | 691 ha | 0.57% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 9 | 9 | 21 | 139 ha | 0.12% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 14 ha | 0.011% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 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
- 20201,141 fire detections, most in August 2020; 8,490 ha burnt
- 20241,048 fire detections, most in July 2024; 7,517 ha burnt
- 20141,007 fire detections, most in June 2014
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2020, 8,490 ha (7.1% of the place); 2024, 7,517 ha (6.2% of the place); 2019, 6,769 ha (5.6% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 481 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 344 | 2,122 ha | 1.8% |
| 2024 | 1,048 | 7,517 ha | 6.2% |
| 2023 | 362 | 989 ha | 0.82% |
| 2022 | 499 | 1,942 ha | 1.6% |
| 2021 | 546 | 4,108 ha | 3.4% |
| 2020 | 1,141 | 8,490 ha | 7.1% |
| 2019 | 865 | 6,769 ha | 5.6% |
| 2018 | 579 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 490 | · | · |
| 2016 | 469 | · | · |
| 2015 | 632 | · | · |
| 2014 | 1,007 | · | · |
| 2013 | 860 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 929 | · | · |
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 (Mtwalume)
- Ward 6
- Ward 7
- Ward 8 (Umgai)
- Ward 9 (Umgai)
- Ward 10
- Ward 11
- Ward 12
- Ward 13
- Ward 14
- Ward 15
- Ward 16
- Ward 17
- Ward 18
- Ward 19
- Ward 20
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.