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Fire near Mpumalanga

Status: ✓ Confirmed

This fire is confirmed by an EFFIS burnt-area perimeter or by repeated, intense satellite detections.

⚠️ The fires shown are automatic satellite heat detections from NASA FIRMS. They are not verified on the ground and are not 100% accurate — they can include false alarms (industrial heat, gas flares, sun glint) or miss small or cloud-covered fires. Do not use this map for safety decisions; always follow official emergency sources.

Where Mpumalanga · Mpumalanga
First detected5 Oct 2026 10:43 UTC
Last detected6 Oct 2026 06:12 UTC
Satellite detections13
Peak intensity93 MW
Active days1

Satellite before & after

High-resolution Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery of the area, before the fire and after. Drag the slider to compare.

After — (Sentinel-2, 2026-10-04) Before — (Sentinel-2, 2026-08-25) Before · 2026-08-25 After · 2026-10-04

Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 · Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem

Satellite detections — 13

TimeIntensity (MW)Source
6 Oct 2026 06:12 UTC93firms
6 Oct 2026 06:12 UTC19firms
5 Oct 2026 12:25 UTC5firms
5 Oct 2026 12:06 UTC8firms
5 Oct 2026 11:30 UTC6firms
5 Oct 2026 11:30 UTC6firms
5 Oct 2026 11:30 UTC3firms
5 Oct 2026 10:43 UTC13firms
5 Oct 2026 10:43 UTC13firms
5 Oct 2026 10:43 UTC38firms
5 Oct 2026 10:43 UTC26firms
5 Oct 2026 10:43 UTC13firms
5 Oct 2026 10:43 UTC13firms

Official & data sources

EFFIS / Copernicus fire viewer ↗ NASA FIRMS active-fire data ↗ AFIS — Advanced Fire Information System (CSIR) ↗

All fires on 5 Oct 2026

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