Free tools · Seen from space
Fire in Ward 4, Elundini
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 810 fire detections seen from space; 147 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2015, 1,518.
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
- 810Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 147 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 9 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 6 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 22 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 4 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 7 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 7 fire detections |
| May 2026 | 14 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 41 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 136 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 437 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 86 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 41 fire detections |
| November 2025 | 0.7 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| December 2025 | 0.0 ha burnt (0.000% of the place) |
| January 2026 | 21 ha burnt (0.013% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 13 ha burnt (0.008% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 12 ha burnt (0.008% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 5.4 ha burnt (0.003% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 95 ha burnt (0.060% 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 | 41 | 39 | 50 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 86 | 85 | 102 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 437 | 434 | 696 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 136 | 130 | 104 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 41 | 41 | 35 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 95 ha | 0.060% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 5.4 ha | 0.003% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 12 ha | 0.008% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 13 ha | 0.008% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 22 | 21 | 10 | 21 ha | 0.013% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 0.7 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
- 20151,518 fire detections, most in August 2015
- 20231,395 fire detections, most in August 2023; 25,449 ha burnt
- 20201,159 fire detections, most in September 2020; 29,025 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2024, 29,795 ha (19.0% of the place); 2020, 29,025 ha (18.5% of the place); 2023, 25,449 ha (16.2% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 795 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 699 | 20,011 ha | 12.7% |
| 2024 | 1,119 | 29,795 ha | 19.0% |
| 2023 | 1,395 | 25,449 ha | 16.2% |
| 2022 | 499 | 19,501 ha | 12.4% |
| 2021 | 650 | 21,583 ha | 13.7% |
| 2020 | 1,159 | 29,025 ha | 18.5% |
| 2019 | 587 | 18,283 ha | 11.6% |
| 2018 | 614 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 901 | · | · |
| 2016 | 640 | · | · |
| 2015 | 1,518 | · | · |
| 2014 | 641 | · | · |
| 2013 | 972 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 1,120 | · | · |
Detections from February 2012 (S-NPP); burnt area from July 2018, so whole years of it from 2019.
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.