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Fire near Lephalale 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 Lephalale Local Municipality · Limpopo
First detected20 Oct 2026 00:18 UTC
Last detected20 Oct 2026 23:58 UTC
Satellite detections28
Peak intensity29 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 — Lephalale Local Municipality (Sentinel-2, 2026-10-20) Before — Lephalale Local Municipality (Sentinel-2, 2026-10-10) Before · 2026-10-10 After · 2026-10-20

Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 · Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem

Satellite detections — 28

TimeIntensity (MW)Source
20 Oct 2026 23:58 UTC1firms
20 Oct 2026 23:58 UTC3firms
20 Oct 2026 23:39 UTC1firms
20 Oct 2026 23:39 UTC2firms
20 Oct 2026 23:39 UTC1firms
20 Oct 2026 23:39 UTC1firms
20 Oct 2026 23:01 UTC2firms
20 Oct 2026 19:13 UTC5firms
20 Oct 2026 19:13 UTC29firms
20 Oct 2026 19:13 UTC18firms
20 Oct 2026 19:13 UTC11firms
20 Oct 2026 14:37 UTC25firms
20 Oct 2026 12:46 UTC8firms
20 Oct 2026 12:46 UTC8firms
20 Oct 2026 12:25 UTC6firms
20 Oct 2026 12:25 UTC6firms
20 Oct 2026 12:25 UTC14firms
20 Oct 2026 12:25 UTC13firms
20 Oct 2026 12:25 UTC8firms
20 Oct 2026 12:25 UTC7firms
20 Oct 2026 11:47 UTC10firms
20 Oct 2026 11:47 UTC4firms
20 Oct 2026 11:47 UTC7firms
20 Oct 2026 11:47 UTC24firms
20 Oct 2026 11:04 UTC6firms
20 Oct 2026 00:18 UTC2firms
20 Oct 2026 00:18 UTC2firms
20 Oct 2026 00:18 UTC2firms

Official & data sources

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

All fires on 20 Oct 2026

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