Wildfires in South Africa
Situation over the last 30 days
2311 fires detected in South Africa over the last 30 days, totalling 523,657 hectares of cumulative footprint. The latest satellite detection (NASA FIRMS) dates from October 22 at 08:51 PM.
The savannas in South Africa burn every dry season, over huge areas but with fast, low-intensity grass fires, largely lit for farming and grazing. Detections are numerous; destructive forest fires are rare.
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 10 at 01:07 AM to October 22 at 08:51 PM9,578 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 15 at 09:13 PM to October 18 at 02:25 PM5,322 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 16 at 03:44 PM to October 20 at 01:58 AM4,493 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 17 at 12:37 AM to October 21 at 01:01 AM4,362 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 17 at 12:37 AM to October 22 at 04:14 PM4,303 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 14 at 12:29 AM to October 18 at 02:25 PM4,151 ha
- Maputo (MZ)from October 15 at 12:58 PM to October 19 at 02:44 PM4,067 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 19 at 10:02 PM to October 22 at 08:51 PM3,915 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 21 at 01:30 PM to October 22 at 08:51 PM3,801 ha
- Mpumalanga (ZA)from October 14 at 04:05 PM to October 22 at 08:51 PM3,615 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 20 at 12:32 PM to October 22 at 08:51 PM3,558 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 17 at 08:51 PM to October 22 at 08:51 PM3,004 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 17 at 01:04 PM to October 22 at 01:39 AM2,941 ha
- KwaZulu-Natal (ZA)from October 21 at 08:48 PM to October 22 at 04:14 PM2,802 ha
- Mpumalanga (ZA)from October 1 at 01:04 PM to October 17 at 01:33 AM2,788 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 18 at 12:45 PM to October 21 at 02:25 PM2,755 ha
- Mpumalanga (ZA)from October 21 at 09:12 AM to October 22 at 02:08 PM2,679 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 18 at 01:21 PM to October 22 at 04:14 PM2,622 ha
- Cap-Occidental (ZA)from September 23 at 09:35 AM to September 28 at 03:38 PM2,601 ha
- État libre (ZA)from October 1 at 01:40 PM to October 22 at 01:47 PM2,508 ha
- Cap-Oriental (ZA)from September 29 at 01:40 PM to October 2 at 02:59 PM2,500 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 17 at 02:02 PM to October 20 at 04:37 PM2,378 ha
- Mpumalanga (ZA)from October 17 at 02:00 PM to October 22 at 04:14 PM2,359 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 16 at 01:31 AM to October 22 at 08:51 PM2,197 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from September 23 at 01:29 AM to October 22 at 08:51 PM2,186 ha
- Mpumalanga (ZA)from October 21 at 12:45 PM to October 22 at 02:08 PM2,147 ha
- Mpumalanga (ZA)from September 23 at 01:10 PM to September 27 at 09:00 PM2,111 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from September 23 at 01:10 PM to September 25 at 03:31 PM2,014 ha
- Mpumalanga (ZA)from October 21 at 01:18 PM to October 22 at 08:51 PM1,936 ha
- KwaZulu-Natal (ZA)from October 1 at 01:04 PM to October 16 at 01:57 PM1,816 ha
- Mpumalanga (ZA)from October 8 at 01:10 PM to October 9 at 02:32 PM1,769 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 22 at 01:47 PM to October 22 at 08:51 PM1,751 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 18 at 01:21 PM to October 22 at 08:51 PM1,751 ha
- État libre (ZA)from October 1 at 01:04 PM to October 2 at 02:25 PM1,735 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 20 at 12:37 AM to October 22 at 08:51 PM1,719 ha
- KwaZulu-Natal (ZA)from October 2 at 12:43 PM to October 13 at 01:34 PM1,708 ha
- Mpumalanga (ZA)from October 2 at 01:21 PM to October 22 at 01:10 PM1,688 ha
- Gauteng (ZA)from October 22 at 12:44 AM to October 22 at 08:51 PM1,657 ha
- Mpumalanga (ZA)from October 12 at 02:38 PM to October 22 at 02:08 PM1,582 ha
- Limpopo (ZA)from October 12 at 12:58 PM to October 20 at 01:20 AM1,564 ha
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These figures come from satellite thermal detection and are not an official tally: only the emergency services of the country concerned are authoritative. The detected footprint overstates the area actually burnt, a pixel counting whole (375 m for VIIRS, 1 km for MODIS) when only an edge burns. A freshly detected fire may not yet carry a place name and will then not appear in this list, though it is already on the map.
Learn more: what a forest fire is and how satellites detect it
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