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Fire near Alfred Duma Local Municipality

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 Alfred Duma Local Municipality · KwaZulu-Natal
First detected23 Sep 2026 11:53 UTC
Last detected23 Sep 2026 12:51 UTC
Satellite detections16
Peak intensity58 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 — Alfred Duma Local Municipality (Sentinel-2, 2026-09-22) Before — Alfred Duma Local Municipality (Sentinel-2, 2026-08-25) Before · 2026-08-25 After · 2026-09-22

Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 · Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem

Satellite detections — 16

TimeIntensity (MW)Source
23 Sep 2026 12:51 UTC16firms
23 Sep 2026 12:51 UTC16firms
23 Sep 2026 12:51 UTC10firms
23 Sep 2026 12:51 UTC10firms
23 Sep 2026 12:29 UTC11firms
23 Sep 2026 12:29 UTC39firms
23 Sep 2026 12:29 UTC56firms
23 Sep 2026 12:29 UTC58firms
23 Sep 2026 12:29 UTC13firms
23 Sep 2026 12:29 UTC39firms
23 Sep 2026 12:29 UTC56firms
23 Sep 2026 12:29 UTC58firms
23 Sep 2026 12:29 UTC13firms
23 Sep 2026 12:29 UTC8firms
23 Sep 2026 12:29 UTC7firms
23 Sep 2026 11:53 UTC37firms

Official & data sources

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

All fires on 23 Sep 2026

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