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Wildfires in Kgatleng
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 06:21 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 1,480 km² of Kgatleng at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 119 km², ranking 7th of 15 regions of Botswana.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2023, with 586 km² detected; the quietest was 2019, with 17 km². The 2021–2025 average is 216% higher than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
August, September and October together hold 81% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 August 2023, with detections in 103 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 1,480 km² with at least one detection, 1.1% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 1,330 | 90% |
| 2 years | 133 | 9.0% |
| 3 to 5 years | 14 | 0.9% |
| 6 to 10 years | 2.2 | 0.1% |
| 11 years or more | 0.0 | 0.0% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at -24.25, 26.75 and holds 33% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 75 | 67 |
| 2013 | 216 | 241 |
| 2014 | 41 | 38 |
| 2015 | 19 | 21 |
| 2016 | 18 | 19 |
| 2017 | 38 | 35 |
| 2018 | 27 | 24 |
| 2019 | 17 | 16 |
| 2020 | 45 | 46 |
| 2021 | 76 | 76 |
| 2022 | 388 | 389 |
| 2023 | 586 | 618 |
| 2024 | 87 | 89 |
| 2025 | 28 | 32 |
Other regions of Botswana
- North-West13,000 km² in an average year
- Ghanzi6,290 km² in an average year
- Kgalagadi5,220 km² in an average year
- Central2,720 km² in an average year
- Kweneng1,470 km² in an average year
- Southern1,120 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- North West, South Africa194 km
- Gauteng, South Africa268 km
- Free State, South Africa295 km
- Kweneng309 km
- Mpumalanga, South Africa335 km
- Ghanzi348 km