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Ward, 2026 boundaries

Ward 4 42005004

Municipality

Mafube

District

Fezile Dabi

Province

Free State

The ward is the one this point falls in under the 2026 boundaries, in force from 4 November 2026.

Source: Municipal Demarcation Board, ward and municipal boundaries, simplified. The ward lookup

90% of the ward was seen through the clouds in October. A paler bar is a month seen over less than half the ward.

The greenness score (NDVI) is how green the land looks from space, from about 0 (bare ground, rock, water) to about 0.9 (dense green growth). It follows rain, season, crops and fire. A month’s figure is the mean over the whole place where the satellite saw the ground (clouds hide some).

Source: NDVI Anomaly and NDVI Climatology, Digital Earth Africa (CC BY 4.0), modified; Landsat imagery courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey; contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2017 to 2026. Second reading: generated using European Union’s Copernicus Land Monitoring Service information (NDVI 300 m, version 3), modified. What we changed: we averaged Digital Earth Africa’s monthly NDVI over each 2026 ward at 240 m (its own 8 by 8 averages of the 30 m pixels) and wards up to municipalities, districts and provinces by area; CLMS’s three 10-day NDVI images a month averaged the same way.

<a href="/drought/ward-42005004">The ward’s drought month by month, with the dams and rain</a>

The drought index puts four measures on one scale, each in standard deviations from its 1991 to 2020 normal for the time of year (minus is drier): rain over the last 3 months and the last 12 (from ERA5-Land), rain less evaporation over 12 months (ERA5-Drought’s SPEI, so a hot, dry year counts for more), and how green the land is (from space, since 2017). The index is their mean. Rain and evaporation are modelled estimates from a weather reanalysis, averaged over the whole place, not station readings; greenness is measured from space. This is not an official drought declaration: those come from the National Disaster Management Centre.

Source: Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 1950 to 2026 (ERA5-Land, for rain; ERA5-Drought, for SPEI). Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains. Greenness: NDVI Anomaly, Digital Earth Africa (CC BY 4.0), modified; Landsat imagery courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey; contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2017 to 2026.