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Fire in Ward 7, eDumbe
Fire in the twelve months to October 2026: 436 fire detections seen from space; 135 ha burnt in the 7 of those months with burnt area out. The most since 2012: 2019, 585.
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
- 436Fire detectionsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- 135 haBurnt7 of the twelve months; the rest not out yet
Show the numbers
| When or what | Figure |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 4 fire detections |
| December 2025 | 7 fire detections |
| January 2026 | 12 fire detections |
| February 2026 | 16 fire detections |
| March 2026 | 8 fire detections |
| April 2026 | 1 fire detection |
| May 2026 | 32 fire detections |
| June 2026 | 11 fire detections |
| July 2026 | 68 fire detections |
| August 2026 | 137 fire detections |
| September 2026 | 85 fire detections |
| October 2026 | 55 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 | 2.6 ha burnt (0.004% of the place) |
| February 2026 | 1.3 ha burnt (0.002% of the place) |
| March 2026 | 78 ha burnt (0.14% of the place) |
| April 2026 | 11 ha burnt (0.018% of the place) |
| May 2026 | 42 ha burnt (0.073% 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 | 55 | 50 | 52 | not out yet | · | · |
| September 2026 | 85 | 74 | 83 | not out yet | · | · |
| August 2026 | 137 | 131 | 155 | not out yet | · | · |
| July 2026 | 68 | 65 | 104 | not out yet | · | · |
| June 2026 | 11 | 11 | 17 | not out yet | · | · |
| May 2026 | 32 | 32 | 30 | 42 ha | 0.073% | 100% |
| April 2026 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 11 ha | 0.018% | 100% |
| March 2026 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 78 ha | 0.14% | 100% |
| February 2026 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 1.3 ha | 0.002% | 100% |
| January 2026 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 2.6 ha | 0.004% | 100% |
| December 2025 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 0.0 ha | 0.000% | 100% |
| November 2025 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 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
- 2019585 fire detections, most in July 2019; 9,219 ha burnt
- 2020500 fire detections, most in August 2020; 6,414 ha burnt
- 2021488 fire detections, most in August 2021; 5,508 ha burnt
By hectares burnt (whole years from 2019): 2019, 9,219 ha (16.0% of the place); 2024, 8,248 ha (14.4% of the place); 2023, 6,436 ha (11.2% of the place).
Every year since 2012
| Year | Fire detections | Burnt | Share of the place |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (10 months) | 425 | 5 months out | · |
| 2025 | 381 | 3,685 ha | 6.4% |
| 2024 | 425 | 8,248 ha | 14.4% |
| 2023 | 439 | 6,436 ha | 11.2% |
| 2022 | 451 | 4,355 ha | 7.6% |
| 2021 | 488 | 5,508 ha | 9.6% |
| 2020 | 500 | 6,414 ha | 11.2% |
| 2019 | 585 | 9,219 ha | 16.0% |
| 2018 | 410 | 6 months out | · |
| 2017 | 447 | · | · |
| 2016 | 276 | · | · |
| 2015 | 271 | · | · |
| 2014 | 444 | · | · |
| 2013 | 399 | · | · |
| 2012 (11 months) | 437 | · | · |
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.