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Fire near Albert Luthuli 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 Albert Luthuli Local Municipality · Mpumalanga
First detected3 Oct 2026 11:02 UTC
Last detected3 Oct 2026 12:44 UTC
Satellite detections16
Peak intensity17 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 — Albert Luthuli Local Municipality (Sentinel-2, 2026-10-02) Before — Albert Luthuli Local Municipality (Sentinel-2, 2026-09-12) Before · 2026-09-12 After · 2026-10-02

Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 · Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem

Satellite detections — 16

TimeIntensity (MW)Source
3 Oct 2026 12:44 UTC2firms
3 Oct 2026 12:44 UTC12firms
3 Oct 2026 12:44 UTC6firms
3 Oct 2026 12:44 UTC6firms
3 Oct 2026 12:06 UTC16firms
3 Oct 2026 12:06 UTC16firms
3 Oct 2026 12:06 UTC17firms
3 Oct 2026 12:06 UTC4firms
3 Oct 2026 11:21 UTC7firms
3 Oct 2026 11:21 UTC14firms
3 Oct 2026 11:21 UTC7firms
3 Oct 2026 11:21 UTC14firms
3 Oct 2026 11:21 UTC13firms
3 Oct 2026 11:02 UTC8firms
3 Oct 2026 11:02 UTC11firms
3 Oct 2026 11:02 UTC8firms

Official & data sources

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

All fires on 3 Oct 2026

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