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Fire near Eastern Cape

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 Eastern Cape · Eastern Cape
First detected1 Oct 2026 11:02 UTC
Last detected1 Oct 2026 14:01 UTC
Satellite detections27
Peak intensity86 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, 2026-09-30) Before — (Sentinel-2, 2026-09-10) Before · 2026-09-10 After · 2026-09-30

Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 · Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem

Satellite detections — 27

TimeIntensity (MW)Source
1 Oct 2026 14:01 UTC20firms
1 Oct 2026 14:01 UTC9firms
1 Oct 2026 13:21 UTC18firms
1 Oct 2026 13:21 UTC22firms
1 Oct 2026 13:21 UTC22firms
1 Oct 2026 12:44 UTC77firms
1 Oct 2026 12:44 UTC6firms
1 Oct 2026 12:44 UTC6firms
1 Oct 2026 12:44 UTC22firms
1 Oct 2026 12:44 UTC22firms
1 Oct 2026 12:44 UTC27firms
1 Oct 2026 12:44 UTC86firms
1 Oct 2026 11:57 UTC19firms
1 Oct 2026 11:57 UTC8firms
1 Oct 2026 11:57 UTC7firms
1 Oct 2026 11:57 UTC3firms
1 Oct 2026 11:57 UTC3firms
1 Oct 2026 11:57 UTC19firms
1 Oct 2026 11:57 UTC4firms
1 Oct 2026 11:57 UTC19firms
1 Oct 2026 11:40 UTC7firms
1 Oct 2026 11:40 UTC6firms
1 Oct 2026 11:40 UTC4firms
1 Oct 2026 11:40 UTC4firms
1 Oct 2026 11:02 UTC15firms
1 Oct 2026 11:02 UTC6firms
1 Oct 2026 11:02 UTC9firms

Official & data sources

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

All fires on 1 Oct 2026